Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 46
As he was doubting what he ought to do, and hesitating, he chanced to remember the priest. "
Who acts: devil · What happens: doubt, do, hesitate, chance, remember · To what, where: priest
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 doubting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doubting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doubting | aux |
| 4 | doubting | doubt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 chanced | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doubting | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hesitating | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hesitating | cc |
| 12 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 doubting | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doubting | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 chanced | nsubj |
| 15 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 remember | mark |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 chanced | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 priest | det |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remember | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 chanced | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | past · progressive | devil | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | ought | devil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hesitate | gerund | devil not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | chance | past | devil | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remember | to-infinitive | devil not said here | the priest | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent priest=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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