Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 7

The tale was long, and may be Andrew Coffey was weary.

Who acts: tale, Andrew · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, Andrew), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weary	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weary	cc
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 weary	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 weary	cop
9	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 weary	nsubj
10	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Andrew	flat
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 weary	cop
12	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tale					long property	tree rules
2	is	may	Andrew					weary 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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