Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 41

When he came to the house, he found the priest and the young lady within, and they were wondering greatly why he had not visited them for two days.

Who acts: herb, hunger · What happens: come, find, wonder, not visit · To what, where: house, priest, 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 (herb, hunger), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lady	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 priest	appos
16	within	within	ADP	_	15 lady	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wondering	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wondering	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wondering	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wondering	aux
21	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 found	parataxis
22	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	21 wondering	advmod
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 visited	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 visited	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 visited	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 visited	advmod
27	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wondering	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 visited	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 days	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 days	nummod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 visited	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	herb		the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	find	past	herb	the priest				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic
3	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	hunger				greatly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not visit	past · perfect · passive		herb		day		tree rules

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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