Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 15
And when they came as far as that, Guleesh turned and caught the young girl in his two arms, and leaped off the horse.
Who acts: clouds, Guleesh · What happens: come, turn, catch, leap · To what, where: young girl, two arms
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, Guleesh), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 far | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 arms | nummod |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 caught | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaped | cc |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 turned | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | clouds = cloud | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Guleesh | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | Guleesh not said here | the young girl | Guleesh's two arms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 4 | leap | participle | Guleesh not said here | off the horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off horse=Trajectory |
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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