Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 7
Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the crying, and the wonder, and the searching, and the _rookawn_, when that lady disappeared from their eyes, and without their seeing what did it.
Who acts: Oro dear Mary, pity, lady, words · What happens: be, disappear, see, do · To what, where: trouble, eyes, door · 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 (Oro dear Mary, pity, lady, words), 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 | Oro | Oro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mary | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oro | punct |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mary | amod |
| 4 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mary | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 there | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 trouble | expl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pity | det |
| 10 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trouble | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trouble | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trouble | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trouble | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trouble | det |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crying | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crying | det |
| 19 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trouble | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wonder | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wonder | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wonder | det |
| 23 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trouble | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 searching | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 searching | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 searching | det |
| 27 | searching | searching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trouble | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rookawn | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rookawn | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rookawn | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 rookawn | punct |
| 32 | rookawn | rookawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trouble | conj |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 rookawn | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 disappeared | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 disappeared | advmod |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 lady | det |
| 37 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 disappeared | nsubj |
| 38 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 rookawn | acl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 disappeared | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 seeing | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 seeing | cc |
| 44 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 46 seeing | mark |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 seeing | nsubj |
| 46 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 disappeared | advcl |
| 47 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 did | nsubj |
| 48 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 seeing | ccomp |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 did | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Oro dear Mary | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the pity | the trouble and the crying and the wonder and the searching and the rookawn | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | that lady | words's eyes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | words = word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | past | door | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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