Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 30
When he said that he stretched out his two hands, and before Guleesh was able to give an answer, he and the rest of them were gone into the rath out of his sight, and he saw them no more.
Who acts: Guleesh · What happens: say, stretch out, be, give, go, see · To what, where: two hands, answer, Guleesh, rath, 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 stretched | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stretched | nsubj |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hands | nummod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stretched | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gone | cc |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 able | mark |
| 14 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gone | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rest | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 he | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rest | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | aux:pass |
| 29 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 rath | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rath | det |
| 32 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | obl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 sight | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sight | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sight | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 saw | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | obj |
| 42 | no | no | ADV | _ | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 saw | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | past | Guleesh | Guleesh's two hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Guleesh | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Guleesh not said here | a answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past · passive | Guleesh | the rath | out Guleesh's sight | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see | past | Guleesh | people | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sight | Guleesh | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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