Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 4

Before she was able to rise again he threw something that was in his hand upon her, said a couple of words, and upon the moment the maiden was gone from amongst them.

Who acts: girl, husband, couple · What happens: be, rise, throw, say, go · To what, where: something, hand, maiden · 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 (girl, husband, couple), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 able	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rise	mark
6	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 rise	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rise	ccomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 threw	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 hand	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hand	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 something	acl:relcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 couple	det
21	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 words	case
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 couple	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 moment	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moment	det
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 maiden	det
30	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux:pass
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 said	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 them	case
34	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gone	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl				able property	tree rules
2	rise	to-infinitive	girl not said here			again		tree rules
3	throw	past	husband	something				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	is	past			husband's hand		upon girl	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	a couple of words					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	go	past · passive		the maiden		moment	from king	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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