Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 10
The son asked his father one day, "Is any one troubling you?"
Who acts: son, one · What happens: ask, be, trouble · To what, where: father, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | iobj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 troubling | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 troubling | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the son | son's father | day | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | any one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trouble in a quote | gerund | any one not said here | son's father = father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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