Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 171
"What is the good of that? that will not do yet," said Connachar. "
Who acts: that, Connachar · What happens: be, not do, say · 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 (that, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 good | obl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | parataxis |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | of that; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | future | that | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Connachar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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