Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 48

He turned to the lady again and told her that he was loth to take her to his father's house, but that there was an excellent priest very friendly to himself, who would take good care of her, if she wished to remain in his house; but that if there was any other place she would rather go, he said he would bring her to it.

Who acts: Glory, priest · What happens: turn, tell, be, take, wish, remain · To what, where: lady, house, Glory, good care, other place, priest · 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 (Glory, priest), 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	_	5 lady	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 loth	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loth	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loth	cop
13	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 loth	csubj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 father	case
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 friendly	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 friendly	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 friendly	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 priest	det
28	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 priest	amod
29	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 friendly	advmod
31	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 friendly	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 take	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 friendly	parataxis
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 care	amod
39	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 care	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wished	punct
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 wished	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wished	nsubj
45	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 take	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 remain	mark
47	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 wished	xcomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 house	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 house	nmod:poss
50	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 remain	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 said	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 said	cc
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 place	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 was	mark
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 was	expl
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 place	cop
57	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	59 place	det
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 place	amod
59	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 said	advcl
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 go	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 go	aux
62	rather	rather	ADV	_	63 go	advmod
63	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 place	acl:relcl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 place	punct
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 said	nsubj
66	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 bring	nsubj
68	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 bring	aux
69	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 said	ccomp
70	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 bring	obj
71	to	to	ADP	_	72 it	case
72	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 bring	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Glory				again	to the lady result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lady=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Glory not said here		lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	Glory					loth property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive		lady		Glory's father's house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination
5	is	past			Glory			friendly property	tree rules
6	take	would		good care of priest					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	priest						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	priest not said here			Glory's house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
9	is a	past	Glory not said here	any other place					tree rules
10	go	would	priest	any other place not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme
11	say speech: assert	past	Glory						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	bring	would	Glory	priest	care				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
13	care		priest						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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