Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 206
They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready.
Who acts: sacks, horse, Conall, queen, foot · What happens: lay down, be, rise, make
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 (sacks, horse, Conall, queen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 lay | compound:prt |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 early | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 early | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 early | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 early | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 early | cop |
| 11 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 rose | mark |
| 13 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 early | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 earlier | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 earlier | cop |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 rose | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 foot | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 foot | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foot | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 foot | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earlier | obl |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 foot | acl |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 making | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | sacks = sack | night | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | horse | early property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | Conall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | horse | early property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the queen | than foot | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | foot not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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