Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 30
"I laugh," she said, "because those that die go out of trouble, but your trouble has come.
Who acts: blow, those, your · What happens: laugh, say, die, go out, come, trouble · To what, where: trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, those, your), 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 | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 come | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 die | nsubj |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 die | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present | blow | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | blow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go out in a quote | infinitive | trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · perfect | those | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | trouble in a quote | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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