Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 59

There is no knowing," said the herd, "but that's easier to say than to do."

Who acts: that · What happens: be, know, say, do · To what, where: herd · 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 (that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 knowing	det
4	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 is	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knowing	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 herd	det
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 herd	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 herd	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 easier	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 easier	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 easier	cop
15	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 knowing	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 easier	csubj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the herd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herd=Topic
4	is	present	that			easy property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	to-infinitive					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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