Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 27
"It's this Cucullin," said he, "that's troubling me.
Who acts: proof, Cucullin · What happens: be, say, trouble · To what, where: 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 (proof, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cucullin | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Cucullin | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Cucullin | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Cucullin | det |
| 5 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cucullin | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cucullin | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 troubling | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 troubling | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 troubling | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 troubling | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 troubling | aux |
| 14 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 troubling | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | proof | this Cucullin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this Cucullin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trouble in a quote | present · progressive | Cucullin | this Cucullin = cucullin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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