Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 149
The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till I see my man again."
Who acts: sea maiden, princess · What happens: say, play on, not see · To what, where: man · 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 (sea maiden, princess), 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 | 4 maiden | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maiden | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Play | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Play | punct |
| 8 | Play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Play | compound:prt |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Play | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Play | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 18 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | advmod |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 man | nmod:poss |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 see | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the sea maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play on in a quote | infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | present | the princess = princess | my man | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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