Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 73

Guleesh was always thinking how he should send her back to her father; but there was no one to go with her, and he himself did not know what road to go, for he had never been out of his own country before the night he brought her away with him.

Who acts: Guleesh, thinking · What happens: think, send back, be, go, not know, road · To what, where: priest, father, one, own country, night · 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, thinking), 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	4 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 one	csubj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 send	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 send	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 send	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 send	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 he	nmod:unmarked
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	parataxis
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 road	nsubj
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 know	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 road	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 had	case
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 go	ccomp
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 country	advmod
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 country	cop
41	out	out	ADP	_	45 country	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 country	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 country	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 country	amod
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obl
46	before	before	ADP	_	48 night	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 night	det
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 country	nmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 brought	nsubj
50	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 night	acl:relcl
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 brought	obj
52	away	away	ADV	_	50 brought	advmod
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 brought	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	Guleesh					always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	send back	should	Guleesh	priest	priest's father				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to father=Destination
3	is a	past	thinking	no one					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive						with priest	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
5	not know	past · do-support	Guleesh						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	road								tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	Guleesh not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	have	past	Guleesh						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not is	participle				Guleesh's own country	night		tree rules
10	bring away	past	Guleesh	the night not said here	priest			with father; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

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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