Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 147
But have you seen her, and are Deirdre's hue and complexion as before?" said Connachar.
Who acts: you, Connachar · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: Gelban, hue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Connachar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 seen | cc |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hue | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hue | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hue | cop |
| 9 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hue | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Deirdre | case |
| 11 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 complexion | cc |
| 13 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hue | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 seen | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | you | Gelban | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as before=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Deirdre's hue and complexion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Connachar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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