Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 47
She was like one astonished when she saw Guleesh and the priest in the same room with her, and she sat up doing her best to collect her thoughts.
Who acts: harm · What happens: be, see, sit up, do, collect · To what, where: Guleesh, 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 (harm), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 astonished | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 astonished | nummod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | advcl |
| 9 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 priest | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priest | det |
| 12 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Guleesh | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 room | amod |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 priest | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 room | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 best | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 sat | compound:prt |
| 24 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 best | amod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 best | nmod:poss |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 astonished | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 collect | mark |
| 28 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 best | csubj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 collect | obj |
| 30 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 collect | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | harm | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | harm | Guleesh and the priest in the same room with priest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guleesh=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit up | past | harm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be | harm not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | collect | to-infinitive | harm | 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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