Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 51

The lady answered him that she understood it was he who boiled that drink for her, and gave it to her; that she was obliged to him from her heart for all the kindness he showed her since the day she first came to Ireland, and that he might be certain that she never would forget it.

Who acts: lady, talk, man · What happens: answer, understand, be, give, oblige, show · To what, where: man, talk, lady, that, heart, kindness

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 (lady, talk, man), 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	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 understood	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boiled	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boiled	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boiled	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 boiled	nsubj
12	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	parataxis
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 drink	det
14	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boiled	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boiled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boiled	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 obliged	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 obliged	nsubj:pass
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 obliged	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 obliged	aux:pass
27	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 obliged	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 heart	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heart	nmod:poss
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obliged	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 kindness	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 kindness	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kindness	det
36	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obliged	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 showed	nsubj
38	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 kindness	acl:relcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 showed	iobj
40	since	since	ADP	_	42 day	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 showed	obl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 came	nsubj
44	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 came	advmod
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 day	acl:relcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Ireland	case
47	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 came	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 certain	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 certain	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 certain	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 certain	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 certain	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 certain	cop
54	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 obliged	conj
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 forget	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 forget	nsubj
57	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 forget	advmod
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 forget	aux
59	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 certain	advcl
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 forget	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the lady		man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	understand	past	lady						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	talk					for lady; boil property	tree rules
4	give	past	talk not said here	talk	lady				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
5	oblige	past · passive		that	man	lady's heart		for all kindness	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	show	past	man	all kindness not said here	lady		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	come	past	lady	the day not said here	Ireland			first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme
8	is	might	man					certain property	tree rules
9	not forget	would	lady	talk					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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