Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 148

I cut the finger from off me, and I threw it from me as far as I could out on the loch, and there was a great depth in the place.

Who acts: I, great depth · What happens: cut, throw, be · To what, where: finger, loch

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, great depth), 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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 finger	det
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 me	case
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 threw	nsubj
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 threw	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 far	advcl
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 could	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 loch	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 loch	det
23	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 depth	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 depth	amod
30	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 depth	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	present	I	the finger		from me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent finger=Product from i=Material
2	throw	past	I	finger	the loch	from me; far property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on loch=Destination
3	be	past	a great depth in the place		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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