Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 97
"There is," said Trembling, speaking up in the closet; "I'm here."
Who acts: Trembling · What happens: be, say, speak up · To what, where: closet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trembling), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 speaking | punct |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 speaking | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 closet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 closet | det |
| 13 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaking | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 here | nsubj |
| 17 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Trembling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak up speech: other | gerund | Trembling not said here | the closet | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Trembling | here property | tree rules |
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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