Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 109
Fin, who was dressed for the occasion as much like a boy as possible, got up, and bringing Cucullin out, "Are you strong?" said he.
Who acts: you, Cucullin · What happens: dress, get up, bring out, be, say · To what, where: Fin, Cucullin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cucullin), 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 | Fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Fin | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 occasion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 occasion | det |
| 8 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 much | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dressed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 got | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 said | ccomp |
| 22 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 bringing | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bringing | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 26 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strong | cop |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 strong | nsubj |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bringing | parataxis |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 said | nsubj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Fin | for the occasion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get up | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bring out | gerund | Cucullin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Cucullin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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