Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 27

He got up then, and it was the first thing he did to go out and search well through the grass round about the house, trying could he get any herb that he did not recognise.

Who acts: sun, wink · What happens: get up, be, go out, search, try, get · To what, where: first thing, grass, herb

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 (sun, wink), 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 got	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thing	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 search	cc
18	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 search	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grass	det
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 search	obl
23	round	round	ADV	_	18 search	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 search	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trying	punct
28	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 get	csubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 search	parataxis
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 herb	det
33	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 recognise	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 recognise	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 recognise	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 recognise	advmod
38	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 get	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	sun			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	wink	the first thing				tree rules
3	go out	past · do-support	sun				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	search	infinitive	sun not said here		the grass		about the house; round, well property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through grass=Location
5	try	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	get	could	sun	any herb				tree rules
7	not recognise	past · do-support	sun					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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