Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 22
"Oh! well, it is long since she was living.
Who acts: trout, well · What happens: be, live
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trout, well), 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 | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 long | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 long | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 living | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 living | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 living | aux |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 long | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | trout | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | past · progressive | well | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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