Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 36

"'Tis hard upon me," then said Connla; "I love my own folk above all things; but yet, but yet a longing seizes me for the maiden."

Who acts: me, I, longing · What happens: say, love, seize · To what, where: own folk, things, me · 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 (me, I, longing), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 me	nsubj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 me	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 folk	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 folk	amod
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 love	obj
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 things	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 things	det
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 folk	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 yet	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 yet	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 love	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seizes	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 seizes	cc
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 longing	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 longing	det
29	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seizes	nsubj
30	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 love	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 seizes	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 maiden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maiden	det
34	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seizes	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	me			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	I	my own folk	all things	yet		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus
3	seize in a quote	present	a longing	me			for the maiden	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for maiden=Beneficiary

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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