Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 72

Since she had no other means of talking, she carried on a sort of conversation between herself and himself, by moving her hand and fingers, winking her eyes, opening and shutting her mouth, laughing or smiling, and a thousand other signs, so that it was not long until they understood each other very well.

Who acts: priest, mouth, eyes · What happens: have, mean, talk, carry, move, wink · To what, where: other, sort, hand, eyes, mouth, each

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 (priest, mouth, eyes), 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	csubj
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	obj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 talking	mark
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 carried	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talking	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sort	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 conversation	case
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 herself	case
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 conversation	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 himself	cc
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 herself	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moving	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 moving	mark
23	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 carried	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moving	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fingers	cc
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hand	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 winking	punct
29	winking	wink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 moving	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 winking	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 opening	punct
33	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 moving	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shutting	cc
35	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 opening	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mouth	nmod:poss
37	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shutting	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 laughing	punct
39	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 opening	conj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 smiling	cc
41	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 laughing	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 signs	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 signs	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 thousand	det
45	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 signs	nummod
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 signs	amod
47	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carried	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 long	punct
49	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	54 long	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 so	fixed
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 long	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 long	cop
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 long	advmod
54	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 carried	advmod
55	until	until	SCONJ	_	57 understood	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 understood	nsubj
57	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 long	advcl
58	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	57 understood	obj
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 each	fixed
60	very	very	ADV	_	61 well	advmod
61	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 understood	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	priest	no other			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	talk	gerund	priest not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry	past	priest		a sort of conversation		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	move	gerund	priest not said here	priest's hand and fingers			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	wink	gerund	priest not said here	priest's eyes			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
7	open	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	shut	gerund		priest's mouth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
9	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	smile	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	not is	past	mouth			long property	tree rules
12	understand	past	eyes = eye	each		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
13	sort			conversation			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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