Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 88
"Oh! that's no matter," said the king's daughter. "
Who acts: that, daughter · What happens: be, say · To what, where: matter · 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, daughter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 matter | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | cop |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | no matter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the king's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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