Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 124

"When he saw that he could not see a glimpse, and when I myself said to him that I would get out in spite of him, he gave a spring out of the water, and he stood in the mouth of the cave, and he said that he would have revenge for the sight of his eye.

Who acts: leech, I · What happens: see, not see, say, get out, give, stand · To what, where: glimpse, leech, spite, water, mouth, revenge · 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 (leech, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glimpse	det
11	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 said	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	15 I	obl:unmarked
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 get	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 spite	case
26	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spite	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 spring	det
33	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 water	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 water	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stood	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stood	nsubj
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 mouth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mouth	det
44	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 cave	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cave	det
47	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mouth	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 said	cc
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 said	nsubj
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 stood	conj
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 have	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 have	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 have	aux
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 said	ccomp
56	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	obj
57	for	for	ADP	_	59 sight	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sight	det
59	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 eye	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 eye	nmod:poss
62	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sight	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	leech						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not see in a quote	could	leech	a glimpse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	I		leech				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	get out in a quote	would	I			spite of leech		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	past	leech			the water	spring		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	stand in a quote	past	leech			the mouth of the cave			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mouth=Location
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past	leech						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	have in a quote	would	leech	revenge				for the sight of leech's eye	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient
9	spite in a quote			leech					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	sight in a quote			leech's eye					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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