Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 86
I was swift enough and strong at that time; and when I felt the rustling toirm of the cats after me I climbed into as high a tree as I saw in the place, and one that was close in the top; and I hid myself as well as I might.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, feel, rustle, climb, see, hide · To what, where: rustling toirm, high tree, one, place, top, myself
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 swift | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swift | cop |
| 3 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 swift | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 strong | cc |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swift | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 felt | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swift | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toirm | det |
| 16 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 toirm | amod |
| 17 | toirm | toirm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cats | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cats | det |
| 20 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 toirm | nmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 climbed | nsubj |
| 24 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | parataxis |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 high | case |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tree | amod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 climbed | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 saw | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 climbed | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 one | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 one | cc |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 saw | obj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 close | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 close | cop |
| 41 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 top | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 top | det |
| 44 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 close | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 hid | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 hid | cc |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 hid | nsubj |
| 48 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 climbed | conj |
| 49 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 hid | obj |
| 50 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 48 hid | advmod |
| 51 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 50 as | fixed |
| 52 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 54 might | mark |
| 53 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 might | nsubj |
| 54 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 hid | advcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | enough, swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | I not said here | time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | I | the rustling toirm of the cats | after me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toirm=Theme | |||
| 4 | rustle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | climb | past | I | a high tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 6 | see | past | I | one | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is | past | the top | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hide | past | I | myself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |
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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