Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 125

I had but to stay there crouched the length of the night, holding in my breath in such a way that he might not find out where I was.

Who acts: I, leech · What happens: have, stay, crouch, hold, not find out, be · To what, where: length, breath · 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, leech), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 crouched	cc
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 crouched	advcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stay	advmod
7	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 length	det
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crouched	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 length	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holding	punct
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 crouched	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 breath	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 breath	nmod:poss
17	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holding	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 way	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holding	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 find	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 find	advmod
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 holding	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 find	ccomp
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 where	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 where	cop
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stay	to-infinitive			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crouch	past	I not said here	the length of the night			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme
4	hold	gerund	I not said here		my breath	in such way	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breath=Location
5	not find out	might	leech				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	I			where property	tree rules

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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