Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 31
The servants went out, and when Conall and his sons saw them coming they went into the hiding holes.
Who acts: servants, Conall · What happens: go out, see, come, go · To what, where: servants, hiding holes
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 (servants, Conall), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 8 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sons | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Conall | conj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | ccomp |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 holes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 holes | det |
| 19 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holes | compound |
| 20 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the servants | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Conall and Conall's sons | servants = servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | servants = servant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | servants = servant | the hiding holes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location |
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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