Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 62

He began his story then, and told the whole to the priest, and the priest was so much surprised that he could not help calling out at times, or clapping his hands together.

Who acts: Guleesh, priest · What happens: begin, tell, be, not help, call out, clap · To what, where: story, hands · 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, priest), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 story	nmod:poss
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whole	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 priest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whole	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surprised	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 surprised	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 priest	det
17	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 surprised	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 surprised	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 surprised	advmod
21	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 help	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 help	advmod
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 surprised	advcl
27	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 help	xcomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 calling	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 times	case
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 calling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clapping	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 clapping	cc
33	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 calling	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 clapping	obj
36	together	together	ADV	_	33 clapping	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Guleesh	Guleesh's story	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past				whole property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the priest			surprise property	tree rules
4	not help	could	Guleesh				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	call out speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Guleesh not said here		time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	clap	gerund	Guleesh not said here	Guleesh's hands		together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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