Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 158
"Then went my father," said Conall, "and he got me a wife, and I was married.
Who acts: Conall · What happens: go, say, get, marry · To what, where: father, wife, Conall · 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 (Conall), 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 | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conall | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conall | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 married | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 married | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 married | aux:pass |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 got | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | my father | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | Conall | a wife | Conall | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary wife=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry in a quote | past · passive | Conall | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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