Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 65

Guleesh answered that he was uneasy about the same thing, and that he saw nothing to do but to keep quiet until they should find some opportunity of doing something better.

Who acts: Guleesh, house, opportunity · What happens: answer, be, see, do, keep, find · To what, where: nothing, opportunity, something · 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, house, opportunity), 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 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 uneasy	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uneasy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 uneasy	cop
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uneasy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 saw	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 keep	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 keep	mark
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	conj
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 find	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 keep	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 opportunity	det
28	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 doing	mark
30	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 opportunity	acl
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 doing	obj
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 something	amod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Guleesh			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Guleesh		about the same thing; uneasy property	tree rules
3	see	past	Guleesh	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	do	to-infinitive	Guleesh not said here	nothing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	to-infinitive	Guleesh not said here		quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	find	should	house	some opportunity		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic
7	do	gerund	some opportunity not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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