Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 32
Then the maiden said: "Oh, mighty Conn, fighter of a hundred fights, the Druid's power is little loved; it has little honour in the mighty land, peopled with so many of the upright.
Who acts: maiden, mighty Conn, power · What happens: say, love, have, people · To what, where: power, little honour, mighty land · 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 (maiden, mighty Conn, power), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Conn | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Conn | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 mighty | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Conn | amod |
| 10 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fighter | punct |
| 12 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Conn | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fights | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fights | nummod |
| 16 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fighter | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 loved | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Druid | det |
| 19 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 power | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Druid | case |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 loved | aux:pass |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 loved | amod |
| 24 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Conn | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 honour | amod |
| 29 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 32 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 land | amod |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 peopled | punct |
| 35 | peopled | people | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 land | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 many | case |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 many | advmod |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 peopled | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 upright | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 upright | det |
| 41 | upright | upright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 many | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present · passive | mighty Conn not said here | the Druid's power | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | power | little honour | the mighty land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Patient | |||
| 4 | people in a quote | participle | the mighty land not said here | with many of the upright | tree rules |
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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