Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 49

She bent her head, to show him she was obliged, and gave him to understand that she was ready to follow him any place he was going. "

Who acts: priest, Glory · What happens: bend, show, oblige, give, understand, be · To what, where: head, Glory, priest, place · 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 (priest, Glory), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bent	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obliged	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obliged	aux:pass
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 show	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 understand	mark
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gave	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 ready	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ready	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ready	cop
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 understand	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 follow	mark
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ready	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 follow	obj
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 place	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bent	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	priest	priest's head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	show	to-infinitive	priest not said here		Glory		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	oblige	past · passive		priest			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	give	past	priest not said here		Glory		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	understand	to-infinitive	priest not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	priest			ready property	tree rules
7	follow	to-infinitive	priest not said here	Glory			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme place=Attribute
8	go	past · progressive	Glory	any place not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=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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