Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 37
I never belonged at all to that lot of sheehogues who carried you away with them.
Who acts: I, sheehogues · What happens: not belong, carry away · To what, where: all, you
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 (I, sheehogues), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 belonged | advmod |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 belonged | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lot | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lot | det |
| 8 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sheehogues | case |
| 10 | sheehogues | sheehogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lot | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sheehogues | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 carried | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | past | I | all | to that lot of sheehogues | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry away | past | sheehogues | you | with eyes = eye; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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