Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 10

The twenty-third trick performed by some conjurors before the Emperor Jahangueir (_Memoirs_, p. 102) is thus described: "They produced a chain of 50 cubits in length, and in my presence threw one end of it towards the sky, where it remained as if fastened to something in the air.

Who acts: Memoirs, trick · What happens: perform, describe, produce, throw, remain, fasten · To what, where: third trick, chain, one end, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Memoirs, trick), 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	5 trick	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 third	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 trick	amod
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 described	nsubj:pass
6	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trick	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 conjurors	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 conjurors	det
9	conjurors	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 performed	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	13 Jahangueir	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jahangueir	det
12	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jahangueir	compound
13	Jahangueir	Jahangueir	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conjurors	nmod
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 Memoirs	punct
15	_	_	ADP	_	16 Memoirs	case
16	Memoirs	memoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Jahangueir	appos
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 Memoirs	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 p.	punct
19	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jahangueir	appos
20	102	102	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 p.	flat
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 p.	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 described	aux:pass
23	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 described	advmod
24	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 produced	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 produced	punct
27	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 produced	nsubj
28	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 described	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 chain	det
30	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 produced	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cubits	case
32	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 cubits	nummod
33	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 chain	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 length	case
35	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cubits	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 threw	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 threw	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 presence	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 presence	nmod:poss
40	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	obl
41	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 produced	conj
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 end	nummod
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 end	nmod
46	towards	towards	ADP	_	48 sky	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sky	det
48	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 remained	punct
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 remained	advmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 remained	nsubj
52	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 threw	conj
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 fastened	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 fastened	mark
55	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 remained	xcomp
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 something	case
57	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	55 fastened	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 air	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 air	det
60	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 something	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perform	participle		the third trick not said here		by some conjurors before the Emperor Jahangueir	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	describe	present · passive		the third trick		thus property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	produce in a quote	past	Memoirs = memoir	a chain of 50 cubits in length			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Result
4	throw in a quote	past	Memoirs = memoir not said here	one end of trick	my presence	towards the sky	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent end=Theme in presence=Destination
5	remain in a quote	past	trick				tree rules
6	fasten a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	participle	trick not said here			to something	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to something=Co-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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