Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 112

I was not looking before me, but I kept looking overhead the way I came--and thinking that the day would never come that I could get up there.

Who acts: I · What happens: not look, keep, look overhead, come, think, not come · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 looking	advmod
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	parataxis
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	overhead	overhead	ADP	_	11 looking	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 way	acl:relcl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thinking	cc
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 kept	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl:unmarked
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thinking	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 get	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 get	compound:prt
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 get	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not look	past · progressive	I			before me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before i=Theme
2	keep	past	I				tree rules
3	look overhead	gerund	I not said here	the way			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	past	I	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	think speech: other	gerund	I not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not come	would				day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get up	could	I		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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