Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 83

And surely, oh king, there was catterwauling between them.

What happens: catterwaul

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 catterwauling	cc
2	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 king	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 surely	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 king	discourse
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 catterwauling	aux
9	catterwauling	catterwaul	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catterwauling	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 catterwauling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catterwaul	past · progressive						between care	tree rules

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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