Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 28

And, indeed, he was not long searching till he observed a large strange herb that was growing up just by the gable of the house.

Who acts: sun, large strange herb · What happens: be, observe, grow up · To what, where: long searching, large strange 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, large strange herb), 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	_	12 observed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 searching	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 searching	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 searching	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 searching	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 searching	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 searching	amod
9	searching	searching	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 observed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 observed	nsubj
12	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 herb	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 herb	amod
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 herb	amod
16	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 growing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 growing	aux
19	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 herb	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 growing	compound:prt
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 gable	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 gable	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gable	det
24	gable	gable	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 growing	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gable	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sun	long searching	indeed property	tree rules
2	observe	past	sun	a large strange herb		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herb=Topic
3	grow up	past · progressive	a large strange herb		by the gable of the house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gable=Location

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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