Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 25
Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called for vengeance.
Who acts: witches, enchantments · What happens: be, come back, rage, call · To what, where: witches · Speech: someone speaks here
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, enchantments), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 witches | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 witches | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witches | det |
| 5 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 witches | acl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 raged | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 raged | nsubj |
| 12 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 witches | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 raged | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 vengeance | case |
| 16 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 witches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the witches | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | gerund | the witches not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rage | past | enchantments = enchantment | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | enchantments = enchantment not said here | for vengeance | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for vengeance=Recipient |
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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