Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 6

The little man_een_ seized her and raised her up behind Guleesh, and the king nor no one else saw them, but out with them through the hall till they came to the door.

Who acts: little man, king · What happens: seize, raise up, see, come · To what, where: girl, Guleesh, words, hall, 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 (little man, king), 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	3 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 een	punct
5	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 man	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 een	punct
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 raised	cc
10	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 raised	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 raised	compound:prt
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 Guleesh	case
14	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 raised	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 one	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 king	conj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 out	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 out	cc
27	out	out	ADV	_	23 saw	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 out	obl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 hall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hall	det
32	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the little man	girl			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	raise up	past	the little man not said here	girl	Guleesh		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme behind guleesh=Destination
3	see	past	the king nor no one	words = word	the hall	out property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	come	past	king		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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