Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 3
"Whence comest thou, maiden?" said Connla.
Who acts: Connla · What happens: come, say · To what, where: thou · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comest | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comest | advmod |
| 3 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 comest | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comest | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comest | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comest | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | thou | whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Connla | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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