Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 18
The good people called out together when they heard what Guleesh said:
Who acts: people, Guleesh · What happens: call out, hear, say · To what, where: good people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 people | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 said | obj |
| 11 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | the good people not said here | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | people | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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