Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 22
And with that they rose up into the air, and out with them with one _roolya-boolya_ the way they came; and they left poor Guleesh standing where they found him, and the two eyes going out of his head, looking after them and wondering.
Who acts: likes, two eyes · What happens: rise up, come, leave, stand, find, go out · To what, where: way, air, poor Guleesh, Guleesh, head
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 (likes, two eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rose | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 rose | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 rose | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 out | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 rose | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 out | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 boolya | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 roolya | nummod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 18 | roolya | roolya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boolya | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 roolya | punct |
| 20 | boolya | boolya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 left | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Guleesh | amod |
| 31 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obj |
| 32 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 left | advcl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 found | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 found | nsubj |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 standing | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 found | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 going | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 going | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 eyes | det |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 eyes | nummod |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 going | nsubj |
| 42 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rose | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 head | nmod:poss |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 going | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 looking | punct |
| 48 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 going | parataxis |
| 49 | after | after | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 looking | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 wondering | cc |
| 52 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 looking | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | likes = like | the way | the air | with that; with roolya boolya | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | likes = like | the way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | likes = like | poor Guleesh | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guleesh=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | likes = like not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | past | likes = like | Guleesh | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go out | gerund | the two eyes | herb's head | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | after eyes = eye | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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