Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 192

Then I was as one under a bundle of straw in a great wind for I could not manage the spear.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, not manage · To what, where: bundle, spear

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), 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	5 one	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bundle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bundle	det
8	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 straw	case
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bundle	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 wind	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wind	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wind	amod
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 straw	nmod
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 manage	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 manage	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 manage	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 manage	advmod
19	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wind	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spear	det
21	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 manage	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			a bundle of straw in a great wind	then	as one	tree rules
2	not manage	could	I	the spear					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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