Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 69

There was great wonderment on the priest's neighbours at the girl who came so suddenly to his house without any one knowing where she was from, or what business she had there.

Who acts: great wonderment, girl, one · What happens: be, come, know, have · To what, where: neighbours, business

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 (great wonderment, girl, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wonderment	amod
4	wonderment	wonderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 neighbours	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neighbours	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 priest	case
9	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 girl	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 girl	acl:relcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 suddenly	advmod
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 suddenly	obl
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 one	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
23	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 one	acl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 from	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 from	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 from	cop
27	from	from	ADP	_	23 knowing	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 what	cc
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 was	parataxis
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 what	nsubj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 business	acl:relcl
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 had	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	great wonderment		the priest's neighbours; there	at the girl	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on neighbour=Location
2	come	past	the girl			without any one; suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	any one not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	girl	business not said here	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient

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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