Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 66

They made it up then between themselves that the priest should let on that it was his brother's daughter he had, who was come on a visit to him from another county, and that he should tell everybody that she was dumb, and do his best to keep every one away from her.

Who acts: house, priest, opportunity, Guleesh · What happens: make up, let, be, have, come, tell · To what, where: opportunity, daughter, visit, everybody, best, one · 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 (house, priest, opportunity, Guleesh), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 themselves	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 let	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	20 daughter	case
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 daughter	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 daughter	cop
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 brother	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 daughter	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 come	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux:pass
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 daughter	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 visit	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 visit	det
29	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 visit	nmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 county	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 county	det
34	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tell	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 tell	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tell	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 tell	aux
40	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	parataxis
41	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 tell	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 dumb	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 dumb	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dumb	cop
45	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tell	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 do	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 do	cc
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tell	ccomp
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 best	nmod:poss
50	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 do	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 keep	mark
52	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 do	advcl
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 one	det
54	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 keep	obj
55	away	away	ADV	_	52 keep	advmod
56	from	from	ADP	_	57 her	case
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 away	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	past	house	opportunity		between house	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	let	should	the priest				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	opportunity			on Guleesh's brother's daughter	tree rules
4	have	past	Guleesh	Guleesh's brother's daughter not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
5	come	past · passive		Guleesh's brother's daughter	a visit to Guleesh	from another county	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	should	Guleesh	everybody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient clause=Topic
7	is	past	priest			dumb property	tree rules
8	do	infinitive		Guleesh's best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
9	keep	to-infinitive		every one		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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