Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 75

This was the way they were for many months, and Guleesh was falling deeper and deeper in love with her every day, and it was plain to himself and the priest that she liked him.

Who acts: This, letters, Guleesh, love, priest · What happens: be, fall, like · To what, where: way, love, Guleesh

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 (This, letters, Guleesh, love), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 months	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 months	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 months	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 months	amod
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 way	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 falling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 falling	cc
12	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 falling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 falling	aux
14	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 way	acl
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 falling	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deeper	cc
17	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 deeper	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 love	case
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falling	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 falling	obl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falling	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plain	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 plain	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 plain	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 plain	cop
28	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 plain	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 priest	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 priest	det
33	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 himself	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 liked	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	nsubj
36	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 plain	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the way					tree rules
2	is	past	letters = letter	the way not said here			for many months		tree rules
3	fall	past · progressive	Guleesh	the way not said here		love	day	with priest; deep property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result
4	is	past	love		Guleesh			plain property	tree rules
5	like	past	priest	Guleesh					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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