Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 51
They went together accordingly to the priest's house, and the sun was just rising when they came to the door.
Who acts: house, sun · What happens: go together, rise, come · To what, where: house, door
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 (house, sun), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 priest | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rising | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rising | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rising | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rising | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 rising | advmod |
| 16 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rising | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | house | the priest's house | accordingly, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rise | past · progressive | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | house | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location |
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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