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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

advmodnsubjcasedetnummodnmodparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctcopexplcasenmod:possoblobjdetnsubjacl:relclpunctnmod:posspunctpunctrootSoADVConnPROPNofADPtheDEThundredNUMfightsNOUNsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTIsAUXitPRONtoADPthyPRONmindNOUNwhatPRONtheDETwomanNOUNsaysVERB,PUNCTmyPRONsonNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_7 saidadvmod
2ConnConnPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidnsubj
3ofofADP_6 fightscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 fightsdet
5hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 fightsnummod
6fightsfightNOUNNumber=Plur2 Connnmod
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 sonparataxis
8totoADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 saidobl
10,,PUNCT_12 Ispunct
11""PUNCT_12 Ispunct
12IsbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 soncop
13ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 Isexpl
14totoADP_16 mindcase
15thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch16 mindnmod:poss
16mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing12 Isobl
17whatwhatPRONPronType=Int20 saysobj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 womandet
19womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing20 saysnsubj
20sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 mindacl:relcl
21,,PUNCT_23 sonpunct
22mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 sonnmod:poss
23sonsonNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
24??PUNCT_23 sonpunct
25""PUNCT_23 sonpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: askpastConn of the hundred fightsMaidenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2say speech: assert in a quotepresentthe womanthy mindvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3is a in a quotepresentmy sontree rules
4mind in a quotethynom 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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