Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 111

"Are you strong?" said Fin again; "are you able to squeeze water out of that white stone?" he asked, putting one into Cucullin's hand.

Who acts: you, Fin, chap · What happens: be, say, squeeze, ask, put · To what, where: water, white stone, one, hand · 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, Fin, chap), 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	_	4 strong	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 strong	nsubj
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 asked	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	parataxis
8	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 able	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 able	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 able	cop
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 able	nsubj
14	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strong	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 squeeze	mark
16	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	xcomp
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squeeze	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	22 stone	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 stone	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 stone	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stone	amod
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squeeze	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 putting	punct
28	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 asked	advcl
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 putting	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 hand	case
31	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 hand	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Cucullin	case
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 putting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you				strong property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Fin			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you				able property	tree rules
4	squeeze in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	water	that white stone			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out stone=Trajectory
5	ask speech: ask	past	chap					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	gerund	chap not said here	one	Cucullin's hand			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal

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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