Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 31
"My business," says Tom, says he, "is to make the beautiful princess, God bless her, laugh three times."
Who acts: business, Tom · What happens: say, be, bless, laugh · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, Tom), 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 | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 business | nmod:poss |
| 3 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 business | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 princess | amod |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 God | punct |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 princess | appos |
| 21 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bless | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laugh | punct |
| 24 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | parataxis |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 times | nummod |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 laugh | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | My business | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | My business not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Tom | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bless in a quote | infinitive | Tom not said here | princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | laugh in a quote | infinitive | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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