Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 1

He stood there for an hour, for two hours, for three hours, and the frost increased greatly, so that he heard the breaking of the _traneens_ under his foot as often as he moved.

Who acts: He, frost · What happens: stand, increase, hear, move · To what, where: breaking, foot

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, frost), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hours	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hours	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hours	nummod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 increased	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 increased	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 frost	det
18	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 increased	nsubj
19	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
20	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	19 increased	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 heard	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 breaking	det
27	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 traneens	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 traneens	det
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 traneens	punct
31	traneens	traneen	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 breaking	nmod
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 foot	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 foot	nmod:poss
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obl
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 often	advmod
37	often	often	ADV	_	25 heard	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 moved	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 moved	nsubj
40	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 often	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He		there	hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	increase	participle	the frost				greatly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	hear	past	frost	the breaking of the traneens	frost's foot		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer breaking=Stimulus
4	move	past	frost					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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