Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 8
Out of the door of the palace they went, without being stopped or hindered, for nobody saw them, and, "My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says every man of them. "
Who acts: words, nobody, saddle · What happens: go, stop, hinder, see, say · To what, where: door, words · 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 (words, nobody, saddle), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stopped | aux:pass |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 hindered | cc |
| 15 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stopped | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 horse | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 horse | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 horse | punct |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bridle | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 horse | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 says | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 says | cc |
| 32 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 saddle | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 saddle | punct |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | parataxis |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 man | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 says | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | words = word | the door of the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | gerund · passive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» | ||||||
| 3 | hinder | participle | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | see | past | nobody | words = word | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | saddle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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