Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 53
He wondered when he saw Guleesh and the girl, for he was certain that it was coming wanting to be married they were.
Who acts: Guleesh, it · What happens: wonder, see, be, want, marry · To what, where: Guleesh, house · 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 (Guleesh, it), 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 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | ccomp |
| 6 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 girl | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Guleesh | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 certain | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 certain | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 certain | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | cop |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 coming | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 coming | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 coming | aux |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 certain | advcl |
| 19 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 coming | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 married | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 married | aux:pass |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wanting | xcomp |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 married | obj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 coming | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | Guleesh | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Guleesh | Guleesh and the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guleesh=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Guleesh | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | it | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | house | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: they=Patient |
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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