Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 45
When Conall and his sons perceived the company coming they went to the hiding holes.
Who acts: Conall, gillies · What happens: perceive, come, go · To what, where: company, 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 (Conall, gillies), 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perceived | obj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 perceived | advcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 holes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 holes | det |
| 14 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holes | compound |
| 15 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Conall and Conall's sons | the company | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Conall and Conall's sons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | gillies = gillie | the hiding holes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 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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