Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 87
There is gloom on your face, girl," said the youth; "what do you here?"
Who acts: gloom · What happens: be, say · To what, where: face, youth · 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 (gloom), 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 | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 face | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 here | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 here | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 here | nsubj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | gloom | your face and girl; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the youth | tree rules |
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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