Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 197
I myself and the woman went out on clear ground, and we passed the night there.
Who acts: myself, we · What happens: go out, pass · To what, where: clear ground
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 (myself, we), 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 myself | nsubj |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 woman | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 myself | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ground | amod |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 passed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | myself | clear ground | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | we | there | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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