Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 109

When I was going on the top of the shore, I saw as if there were a smoke coming up between two rocks, and I began to look what might be the meaning of the smoke coming up there.

Who acts: I, smoke · What happens: go, see, be, come up, begin, look · To what, where: top, two rocks, meaning

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 (I, smoke), 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	4 going	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 smoke	det
19	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 were	nsubj
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 smoke	acl
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 coming	advmod
22	between	between	ADP	_	24 rocks	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 rocks	nummod
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 coming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 meaning	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 meaning	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 meaning	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 meaning	det
35	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 smoke	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 smoke	det
38	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 meaning	nmod
39	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 smoke	acl
40	up	up	ADV	_	39 coming	advmod
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 coming	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	I		the top of the shore		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location
2	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be a condition, not said to happen	past	a smoke		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come up	gerund	a smoke not said here		two rocks		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between rock=Location
5	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is a	might		the meaning		of the smoke	tree rules
8	come up	gerund	the smoke not said here		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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