Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 68

Guleesh went home then, and when his people asked him where he had been, he said that he had been asleep at the foot of the ditch, and had passed the night there.

Who acts: Guleesh, people · What happens: go, ask, be, say, pass · To what, where: Guleesh, foot · 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, people), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 asked	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod:poss
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 been	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 been	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 been	aux
15	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 asleep	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asleep	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 asleep	cop
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 foot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 foot	det
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asleep	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ditch	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ditch	det
29	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foot	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 passed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 passed	cc
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 passed	aux
33	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 passed	obl:unmarked
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 passed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Guleesh			then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Guleesh's people	Guleesh				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past · perfect	Guleesh					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Guleesh					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	past · perfect	Guleesh		the foot of the ditch		asleep property	tree rules
6	pass	past · perfect			there	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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