Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 18
A task is upon me too great for all my skill and wit, greater than any laid upon me since I seized the kingship.
Who acts: task, I · What happens: be, lay, seize · To what, where: kingship
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 (task, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 task | det |
| 2 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 is | obl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 skill | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 skill | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skill | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wit | cc |
| 13 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skill | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greater | punct |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 skill | amod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 any | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 greater | obl |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 any | acl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | obl |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 seized | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 seized | nsubj |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingship | det |
| 25 | kingship | kingship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a task | for my skill and wit; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | upon me | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon i=Destination | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | I | the kingship | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingship=Theme |
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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