Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 24
For a whole month from that day Connla would take nothing, either to eat or to drink, save only from that apple.
Who acts: Connla · What happens: take, eat, drink, save · To what, where: nothing, apple
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 (Connla), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 month | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 month | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 month | amod |
| 4 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 month | nmod |
| 8 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 13 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc:preconj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | parataxis |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drink | mark |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 apple | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 apple | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 apple | det |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | Connla | nothing | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | that apple | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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