Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 21

But they had no power at all to carry off the girl, after Guleesh had consecrated her to himself.

Who acts: people, Guleesh · What happens: have, carry off, consecrate · To what, where: power, all, girl, Guleesh

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 power	det
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 carry	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consecrated	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 consecrated	mark
15	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 consecrated	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 consecrated	aux
17	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 consecrated	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 consecrated	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	people	no power		all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	carry off	to-infinitive	people not said here	the girl			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
3	consecrate	past · perfect	Guleesh	girl	Guleesh		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Result

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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