Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 33

When the gillies had time to be gone, Conall and his sons laid their hands again on the horse.

Who acts: gillies, Conall · What happens: have, go, lay · To what, where: hands

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 (gillies, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gillies	det
3	gillies	gillie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laid	advcl
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 gone	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	aux:pass
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 time	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laid	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sons	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod:poss
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Conall	conj
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laid	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	14 laid	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 horse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the gillies		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive · passive	the gillies not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»
3	lay	past	Conall and Conall's sons	gillies's hands	again	on the horse	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on horse=Destination

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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