Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 50
No sooner did Guleesh hear her talking than he put a shout of joy out of him, and ran over to her and fell on his two knees, and said: "A thousand thanks to God, who has given you back the talk; lady of my heart, speak again to me."
Who acts: Guleesh, harm, thousand thanks, you · What happens: hear, talk, put, run over, fall, say · To what, where: shout, harm, two knees, talk, me, joy · 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 (Guleesh, harm, thousand thanks, you), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 hear | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 talking | nsubj |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 talking | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shout | det |
| 12 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shout | nmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 talking | parataxis |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 ran | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ran | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 knees | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 knees | nmod:poss |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 knees | nummod |
| 29 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fell | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ran | conj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 thanks | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 thanks | punct |
| 35 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 thousand | det |
| 36 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 thanks | nummod |
| 37 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 God | case |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 thanks | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 given | punct |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 given | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 given | aux |
| 43 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 thanks | parataxis |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 back | nsubj |
| 45 | back | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 given | ccomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 talk | det |
| 47 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 back | obj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 lady | punct |
| 49 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thanks | parataxis |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 heart | case |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 heart | nmod:poss |
| 52 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lady | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 speak | punct |
| 54 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 thanks | parataxis |
| 55 | again | again | ADV | _ | 54 speak | advmod |
| 56 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 me | case |
| 57 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 speak | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | Guleesh | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | harm | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Guleesh | a shout of joy | out man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shout=Theme out he=Destination | |||
| 4 | run over | past | harm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | man's two knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | give in a quote | present · perfect | thousand thanks to God | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | back in a quote | present | you | the talk | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Agent | ||||
| 9 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | me | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 10 | shout | joy | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=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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