Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 22

When the witches inside heard the call, a great and terrible cry broke from their lips, and they rushed forth with wild lamentations and shrieks, and fled away to Slievenamon, where was their chief abode.

Who acts: witches, great cry, lips · What happens: hear, break, rush, flee away, be · To what, where: call, Slievenamon, chief abode

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witches, great cry, lips), 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	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witches	det
3	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 call	det
7	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cry	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cry	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 terrible	cc
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 great	conj
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 lips	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broke	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rushed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rushed	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rushed	nsubj
21	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	conj
22	forth	forth	ADV	_	21 rushed	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 lamentations	case
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lamentations	amod
25	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rushed	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shrieks	cc
27	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lamentations	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fled	cc
30	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 fled	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Slievenamon	case
33	Slievenamon	Slievenamon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 fled	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 abode	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 abode	advmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 abode	cop
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 abode	nmod:poss
38	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 abode	amod
39	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Slievenamon	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the witches	the call		inside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
2	break	past	a great cry			from clay's lips	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from lip=Co-Patient
3	rush	past	lips = lip			with wild lamentations and shrieks; forth property	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with lamentation=Eventuality
4	flee away	past	a great cry not said here		Slievenamon	away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to slievenamon=Initial_Location
5	is a	past		lips's chief abode			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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