Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 82
The moon rose slowly; and it was like a knob of fire behind him; and there was a white fog which was raised up over the fields of grass and all damp places, through the coolness of the night after a great heat in the day.
Who acts: moon · What happens: rise, be, raise up · To what, where: white fog, fields
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 (moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knob | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knob | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knob | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knob | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 knob | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knob | det |
| 11 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knob | nmod |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fog | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fog | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fog | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fog | amod |
| 22 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 raised | aux:pass |
| 25 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fog | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 raised | compound:prt |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 fields | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fields | det |
| 29 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 raised | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 grass | case |
| 31 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fields | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 places | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 places | det |
| 34 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 places | amod |
| 35 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 grass | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 coolness | punct |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 coolness | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 coolness | det |
| 39 | coolness | coolness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 raised | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 night | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 coolness | nmod |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 46 heat | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 heat | det |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 heat | amod |
| 46 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 raised | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 day | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 day | det |
| 49 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 raised | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the moon | slowly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | moon | like a knob; of fire behind Guleesh | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a white fog | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | raise up | past · passive | a white fog | the fields of grass and all damp places | after a great heat; day | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over field=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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