Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 199

The king of Lochlann's mother was putting on a fire at this time, and listening to Conall telling the tale about the child.

Who acts: king · What happens: put, listen, tell · To what, where: fire, Conall, tale · 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 (king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 putting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 mother	case
4	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Lochlann	case
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 putting	aux
8	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 putting	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 putting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listening	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 listening	cc
17	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 putting	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Conall	case
19	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 listening	obl
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 listening	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tale	det
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 telling	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 child	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tale	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 putting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · progressive	the king of Lochlann's mother			a fire	time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination
2	listen	gerund	the king of Lochlann's mother not said here		Conall				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conall=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the king of Lochlann's mother not said here	the tale				about the child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about child=Topic

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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