Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 162

I put in the one foot, and the other foot was on the ground, and when I raised my head what was it but the boat over in the middle of the loch, and she never stopped till she reached the island.

Who acts: I, other foot, wife · What happens: put, be, raise, not stop, reach · To what, where: one foot, ground, head, foot, island

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, other foot, wife), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 foot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	compound
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ground	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ground	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foot	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foot	amod
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ground	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ground	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 raised	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 raised	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 raised	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 raised	nsubj
20	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 raised	obj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 raised	obj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 it	cop
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 what	nsubj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 boat	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boat	det
28	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	conj
29	over	over	ADV	_	23 what	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 loch	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 loch	det
35	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 middle	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stopped	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stopped	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stopped	nsubj
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 stopped	advmod
40	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 raised	conj
41	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 reached	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 reached	nsubj
43	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stopped	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 island	det
45	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reached	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	I		the one foot	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in foot=Destination
2	is	past	the other foot		the ground	tree rules
3	raise	past	I	my head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent head=Theme what=Destination
4	is a	past		foot		tree rules
5	not stop	past	wife			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	reach	past	wife	the island		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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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