Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 48

The two men were in great anxiety waiting to see would she speak, or would she not speak, and when they remained silent for a couple of minutes, the priest said to her: "Did you sleep well, Mary?"

Who acts: two men, great anxiety, harm, thoughts, priest · What happens: be, wait, see, speak, not speak, remain · To what, where: great anxiety, harm, Mary · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two men, great anxiety, harm, thoughts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 anxiety	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxiety	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 anxiety	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anxiety	amod
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 anxiety	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waiting	advcl
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speak	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 speak	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 speak	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 speak	advmod
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waiting	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remained	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 remained	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 remained	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 remained	nsubj
24	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxiety	conj
25	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 remained	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 couple	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 couple	det
28	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remained	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 minutes	case
30	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 couple	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 priest	det
33	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxiety	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 sleep	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 sleep	punct
39	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sleep	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 sleep	nsubj
41	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 sleep	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Mary	punct
44	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 sleep	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	41 sleep	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two men			great anxiety		tree rules
2	wait	gerund	great anxiety not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	great anxiety not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	would	harm					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not speak speech: other	would	harm					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	remain	past	thoughts = thought				for a couple of minutes; silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: ask	past	the priest		harm			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	sleep in a quote	past · do-support	harm	Mary			well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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