Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 41
When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they laid hands again on the horse, and one of them caught him, and if the noise that the horse made on the two former times was great, he made more this time.
Who acts: Conall, gillies, one, noise · What happens: perceive, be, lay, catch, make · To what, where: hands, Conall, 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, gillies, one, noise), 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 | 6 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sons | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Conall | conj |
| 6 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gillies | det |
| 9 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 perceived | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 perceived | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 laid | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 caught | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 caught | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 made | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 made | cc |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 great | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 noise | det |
| 31 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 great | nsubj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 horse | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 noise | conj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 horse | acl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 times | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 times | det |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 times | nummod |
| 39 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 times | amod |
| 40 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 made | obl |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 great | cop |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 made | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 great | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 made | nsubj |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | conj |
| 46 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 time | advmod |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 time | det |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 made | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Conall and Conall's sons | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the gillies | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | gillies = gillie | hands | again | on the horse | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 4 | catch | past | one of gillies | Conall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | the horse not said here | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the noise and the horse | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | past | Conall | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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