Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 63
"You must pass for your own child," said she; "so just lie there snug, and say nothing, but be guided by me."
Who acts: You, child, Oonagh · What happens: pass, say, lie, guide · To what, where: nothing · 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, child, Oonagh), 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 pass | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | aux |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 lie | advmod |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 lie | advmod |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | parataxis |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lie | advmod |
| 19 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lie | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 lie | parataxis |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 say | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 guided | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 guided | cc |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 guided | aux:pass |
| 27 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 say | parataxis |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 guided | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | must | You | for your own child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | there | snug property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||||
| 5 | guide in a quote | infinitive · passive | Oonagh | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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