Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 102

Oh! if I could only give her some help and relief," said he, "I wouldn't care whether I were alive or dead; but I see nothing that I can do for her."

Who acts: I, GULEESH · What happens: give, say, not care, be, see, do · To what, where: help, Musha, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, GULEESH), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 if	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 give	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 help	det
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 relief	cc
12	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 care	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 care	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 care	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 care	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 care	advmod
22	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 alive	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 alive	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 alive	cop
26	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 care	ccomp
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 dead	cc
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 alive	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 see	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 do	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	could	I	some help and relief	Musha		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient help=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	GULEESH				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not care	would	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	I			alive property	tree rules
5	be		I not said here				tree rules
6	see	present	I	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
7	do	can	I			for Musha	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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