Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 35
So Conn of the hundred fights said to him, "Is it to thy mind what the woman says, my son?"
Who acts: Conn, woman, thy · What happens: say, be, mind · To what, where: Maiden, mind, son · 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 (Conn, woman, thy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fights | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fights | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fights | nummod |
| 6 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Conn | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Is | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Is | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Is | expl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Is | obl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 says | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mind | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Conn of the hundred fights | Maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the woman | thy mind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | thy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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