Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 44

Guleesh and the priest sat up the entire night with her, waiting till she should awake, and they between hope and unhope, between expectation of saving her and fear of hurting her.

Who acts: Guleesh, harm, expectation, fear · What happens: sit up, wait, awake, save, hurt · To what, where: harm

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 (Guleesh, harm, expectation, fear), 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 priest	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guleesh	conj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 awake	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awake	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 awake	aux
17	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waiting	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hope	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hope	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hope	nsubj
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 hope	case
22	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unhope	cc
24	unhope	unhope	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hope	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 expectation	punct
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 expectation	case
27	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hope	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 saving	mark
29	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 expectation	acl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saving	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fear	cc
32	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 expectation	conj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 hurting	mark
34	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 fear	acl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurting	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	Guleesh and the priest		night	with harm	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	Guleesh and the priest not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	awake	should	harm				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	save	gerund	expectation and fear not said here	harm			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	hurt	gerund	fear not said here	harm			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient

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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