Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 77

They betook themselves to the cow, and indeed she did not last them long.

Who acts: cows, I. · What happens: betake, not last · To what, where: cows

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 (cows, I.), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 betook	nsubj
2	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 betook	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 betook	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 last	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 last	cc
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 last	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 last	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 last	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 last	advmod
13	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 betook	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 last	obj
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 last	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betake	past	cows = cow	cows = cow				to the cow	tree rules
2	not last	past · do-support	I.	cows = cow				indeed, long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value

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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