Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 11

The old man said, "Some one is, but that's nought to do with you nor any one else."

Who acts: old man, one · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: nought · 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 (old man, 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nought	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 nought	punct
7	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nought	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nought	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nought	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 nought	cc
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 nought	det
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nought	cop
14	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nought	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	obl
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 one	cc
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 you	conj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	some one	nought		tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		with you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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