Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 59

The priest looked at him as though he had ten heads on him; but without putting any other question to him, he desired him to come in, himself and the maiden, and when they came in, he shut the door, brought them into the parlour, and put them sitting.

Who acts: priest, father, house · What happens: look, have, put, desire, come in, shut · To what, where: ten heads, other question, father, Guleesh, door, house

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, father, house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	as	as	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	advcl
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 heads	nummod
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 desired	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 desired	cc
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 putting	mark
17	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 desired	advcl
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 question	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 question	amod
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 putting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 putting	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 desired	nsubj
25	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 desired	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 desired	xcomp
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 himself	punct
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 come	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 maiden	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maiden	det
34	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 himself	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shut	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 shut	cc
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 came	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 shut	advcl
40	in	in	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 shut	nsubj
43	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 door	det
45	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shut	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 brought	punct
47	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 shut	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 brought	obj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 parlour	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 parlour	det
51	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 put	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 put	cc
54	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 shut	advcl
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 put	obj
56	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 put	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the priest				at father	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	have	past	father	ten heads			on Guleesh	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	put	gerund	father not said here	any other question	father			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
4	desire	past	father	Guleesh				tree rules
5	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	father				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come in	past	house					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shut	past	father	the door				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
8	bring	past	father not said here	house		the parlour		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into parlour=Destination
9	put	infinitive	father not said here	house				tree rules
10	sit	gerund	father not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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