Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 2

He was thinking, in his own mind, at last, that the sheehogues would not come that night, and that it was as good for him to return back again, when he heard a sound far away from him, coming towards him, and he recognised what it was at the first moment.

Who acts: frost, sheehogues, it, mind · What happens: think, not come, be, return back, hear, come · To what, where: own mind, sound

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 (frost, sheehogues, it, mind), 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	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mind	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 mind	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mind	amod
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 last	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mind	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sheehogues	det
15	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thinking	parataxis
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 good	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 good	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thinking	conj
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 return	mark
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 return	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 return	mark
31	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 good	csubj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 return	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 return	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 heard	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 heard	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 sound	det
39	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heard	obj
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 away	advmod
41	away	away	ADV	_	37 heard	advmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 away	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 coming	punct
45	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 heard	advcl
46	towards	towards	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 coming	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 recognised	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 recognised	cc
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 recognised	nsubj
51	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 heard	conj
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 recognised	obj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 moment	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 moment	cop
55	at	at	ADP	_	58 moment	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 moment	det
57	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	58 moment	amod
58	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 what	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	frost		frost's own mind			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come	would	the sheehogues			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	it				good property	tree rules
4	return back	to-infinitive	frost			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	frost	a sound			away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
6	come	gerund	frost not said here				towards frost	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
7	recognise	past	frost					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
8	is	past	mind			at the first moment		tree rules
9	mind		frost					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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