Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 3
Said Silver-tree, "Troutie, bonny little fellow, am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?"
Who acts: Troutie · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: Silver tree, beautiful queen, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Troutie), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Silver | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Troutie | punct |
| 7 | Troutie | Troutie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 queen | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 9 | bonny | bonny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Troutie | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 queen | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 queen | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 queen | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 queen | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 queen | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Silver tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Troutie | the beautiful queen | the world | tree rules |
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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