Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 65

Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one-eyed fox-coloured cat as head bard over them.

What happens: come in · To what, where: one great one eyed coloured cat

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: 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 come	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 cat	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cat	nummod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ten	cc
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cat	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cat	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cat	nummod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cat	amod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cat	nummod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
16	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cat	amod
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coloured	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 fox	punct
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cat	amod
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 bard	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bard	compound
23	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cat	nmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bard	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	should		one great one eyed coloured cat as head bard over cows					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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