Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 207
He got the brown horse and his sack full of gold and silver and stones of great price, and then Conall and his three sons went away, and they returned home to the Erin realm of gladness.
Who acts: Conall, sacks · What happens: get, go away, return · To what, where: brown horse
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 (Conall, sacks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sack | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sack | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | conj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sack | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stones | cc |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gold | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 price | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 price | amod |
| 18 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stones | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 went | advmod |
| 22 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sons | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sons | nummod |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Conall | conj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 returned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 returned | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 returned | nsubj |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 returned | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 realm | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 realm | det |
| 36 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 realm | compound |
| 37 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 returned | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 gladness | case |
| 39 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 realm | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Conall | the brown horse and Conall's sack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | Conall and Conall's three sons | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | sacks = sack | to the Erin realm of gladness result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to realm=Result |
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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