Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 44
The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, and the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh's own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not stand the sight of the young girl, and she in that unhappy plight.
Who acts: girl, tears, own eyes, devil · What happens: raise, lay, show, lose, run, not be · To what, where: white smooth hand, finger, tongue, devil, voice, two eyes · 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, tears, own eyes, devil), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 6 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 finger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tongue | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 show | ccomp |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 voice | nmod:poss |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 power | cc |
| 27 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 speech | case |
| 29 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 power | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ran | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ran | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tears | det |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ran | nsubj |
| 34 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 eyes | nummod |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ran | obl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 streams | case |
| 41 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 eyes | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 dry | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 dry | cc |
| 44 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Guleesh | case |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 eyes | amod |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 dry | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dry | cop |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 dry | advmod |
| 50 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 rough | punct |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 rough | case |
| 53 | as | as | ADV | _ | 54 rough | advmod |
| 54 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 dry | conj |
| 55 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 60 outside | mark |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 outside | nsubj |
| 57 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 outside | cop |
| 58 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 outside | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 outside | det |
| 60 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 rough | advcl |
| 61 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 had | nsubj |
| 62 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 outside | acl:relcl |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 65 heart | det |
| 64 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 heart | amod |
| 65 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 had | obj |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 stand | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 stand | cc |
| 68 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 70 stand | aux |
| 69 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 70 stand | advmod |
| 70 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 raised | conj |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 sight | det |
| 72 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 stand | obj |
| 73 | of | of | ADP | _ | 76 girl | case |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 76 girl | det |
| 75 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 girl | amod |
| 76 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 sight | nmod |
| 77 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 83 plight | punct |
| 78 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 83 plight | cc |
| 79 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 83 plight | nsubj |
| 80 | in | in | ADP | _ | 83 plight | case |
| 81 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 83 plight | det |
| 82 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 83 plight | amod |
| 83 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 84 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the girl | girl's white smooth hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the girl not said here | girl's finger | girl's tongue | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on tongue=Destination | |||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | devil | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | girl | girl's voice and power of speech | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the tears | girl's two eyes like streams | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | Guleesh's own eyes | dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | Guleesh's own eyes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | devil | the outside | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | have | past | devil | a soft heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 10 | not stand | could | the girl not said here | the sight of the young girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | sight | the young girl | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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