Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 102

And there's the hardest case in which I ever was; and it seems to me that tearing by the cats were harder than hanging to-morrow by the king of Lochlann."

Who acts: hardest case, it, tearing · What happens: be, seem, tear, hang · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hardest case, it, tearing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 's	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
5	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 case	amod
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 was	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 was	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 was	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 case	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seems	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seems	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seems	nsubj
15	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 's	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seems	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 harder	mark
19	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 harder	csubj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 cats	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cats	det
22	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tearing	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 harder	cop
24	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 seems	xcomp
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 hanging	mark
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 harder	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 morrow	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Lochlann	case
34	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 king	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	the hardest case		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	present	it	me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	tear	gerund				by the cats	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cat=Trajectory
4	is	past	tearing			hard property	tree rules
5	hang	gerund	tearing not said here			to morrow; by the king of Lochlann	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by king=Location

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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