Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 92
It is anything else but the wail of the wave-swans of Connachar," said his brothers. "
Who acts: ear, wave swans · What happens: be, say, wail · To what, where: anything, brothers · 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 (ear, wave swans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 anything | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | cop |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 anything | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wail | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wail | det |
| 7 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anything | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 swans | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swans | det |
| 10 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swans | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wave | punct |
| 12 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wail | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Connachar | case |
| 14 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 swans | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ear | anything | else property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Connachar's brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wail | the wave swans of Connachar | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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