Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 31

He turned to the young woman and said to her: "Thanks be to God, they're gone.

Who acts: Guleesh, Thanks, people · What happens: turn, say, be · To what, where: woman · 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, Thanks, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 God	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 God	punct
13	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 God	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 God	cop
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 God	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 God	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Guleesh		to the young woman result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to woman=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Guleesh not said here	woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is in a quote	infinitive	Thanks		to God	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	people		gone property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/31/