Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 55
When he woke up he went back to the priest's house, and found that the young lady was in the same state, and that she was asleep almost since the time that he left the house.
Who acts: Guleesh, young lady, lady · What happens: wake up, go back, find, be, leave · To what, where: same state, house · 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, young lady, lady), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 priest | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 state | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 state | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 state | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 state | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asleep | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asleep | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 asleep | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 asleep | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 asleep | cop |
| 30 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | advcl |
| 31 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 34 time | advmod |
| 32 | since | since | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 left | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 left | nsubj |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 left | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Guleesh | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Guleesh | to the priest's house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Guleesh not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the young lady | the same state | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | lady | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | Guleesh | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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