Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 87

The cats began to search for me through the wood, and they could not find me; and when they were tired, each one said to the other that they would turn back. '

Who acts: cats, places, one · What happens: begin, search, not find, be, say, turn back · To what, where: wood, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cats, places, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 search	mark
5	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 search	obl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 search	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 find	advmod
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 search	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 tired	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 other	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 turn	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 turn	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 turn	aux
34	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 turn	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cats				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	search	to-infinitive	the cats not said here		the wood	for me	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme through wood=Location
3	not find	could	places = place	me			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic
4	is	past	places = place			tired property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	each one			to the other	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	turn back	would	places = place				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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