Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 6
"Are you doing any soothsaying?" says Malcolm.
Who acts: you, Malcolm · What happens: do, say · To what, where: soothsaying · 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, Malcolm), 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 | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 soothsaying | det |
| 6 | soothsaying | soothsaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doing | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Malcolm | Malcolm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | any soothsaying | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soothsaying=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | Malcolm | 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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