Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 76
"Did you ever see Fin?" said she, changing her manner all at once.
Who acts: you, M'Coul · What happens: see, say, change · To what, where: Fin, manner · 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, M'Coul), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changing | punct |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 manner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changing | obj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 once | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 changing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | Fin | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fin=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | M'Coul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change | gerund | M'Coul not said here | M'Coul's manner | once property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Patient |
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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