Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 167

Then I came to a glen; I saw in it, at the bottom of a hollow, a woman with a child, and the child was naked on her knee, and she had a knife in her hand.

Who acts: I, child, woman · What happens: come, see, be, have · To what, where: glen, knee, knife, hand

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, child, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 glen	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glen	det
6	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bottom	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bottom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 woman	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
18	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bottom	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 child	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 woman	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 naked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 naked	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 naked	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 naked	cop
30	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 knee	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 knee	nmod:poss
33	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 naked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 knife	det
39	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 hand	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hand	nmod:poss
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		a glen	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glen=Initial_Location
2	see	past	I		glen		at the bottom of a hollow woman with a child	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the child		woman's knee		naked property	tree rules
4	have	past	woman	a knife	woman's hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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