Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 24
This will do," said he; "it's high time now to travel on my way."
Who acts: This, man, sword · What happens: do, say, be, travel · To what, where: high time, way · 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 (This, man, sword), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 time | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 travel | mark |
| 16 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travel | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | sword | high time | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | man not said here | my way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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