Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 52

Guleesh beat it hard, and as early as it was the priest was up, and opened the door himself.

Who acts: Guleesh, sun · What happens: beat, be, open · To what, where: sun, 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 (Guleesh, 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 beat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 early	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 early	cc
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 early	advmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 beat	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 priest	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 priest	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 priest	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 early	parataxis
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 up	cop
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 priest	compound
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 opened	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Guleesh	sun	early, hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	past	sun		as the priest	tree rules
3	open	past		the door	Guleesh obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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