Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 112
"Ah, never mind," said Dudden; "it's only a step now to the Brown Lake."
Who acts: Dudden, end · What happens: not mind, say, be · To what, where: step · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dudden, end), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 step | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 step | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 step | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 step | det |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Lake | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Lake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lake | det |
| 20 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lake | compound |
| 21 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 step | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lake | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dudden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | end | a step | to the Brown Lake | 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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