Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 14
They did not stop there, but went of a race to the place where was Guleesh's house and the rath.
Who acts: clouds · What happens: not stop, go, be · To what, where: place, house
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stop | advmod |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stop | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 race | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 race | det |
| 11 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 house | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 house | cop |
| 17 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Guleesh | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rath | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rath | det |
| 22 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past · do-support | clouds = cloud | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | clouds = cloud not said here | the place | of a race | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of race=Initial_Location to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Guleesh's house and the rath | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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