Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 3

When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yards from it, the little sheehogue stretched out his foot before the girl, and she fell.

Who acts: king, little sheehogue, girl · What happens: come, not be, stretch out, fall · To what, where: altar, foot

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 (king, little sheehogue, girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 altar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 altar	det
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 more	cop
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 yards	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 four	advmod
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 yards	nummod
15	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 more	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 yards	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sheehogue	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sheehogue	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sheehogue	amod
21	sheehogue	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yards	conj
22	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sheehogue	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 stretched	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretched	obj
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 girl	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	king		the altar			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near altar=Location
2	not is	past	king not said here				than four yards from altar and the little sheehogue; more property	tree rules
3	stretch out	participle	the little sheehogue not said here	husband's foot		before the girl		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	fall	past	girl					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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