Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 37
When the maiden heard this, she answered and said "The ocean is not so strong as the waves of thy longing.
Who acts: maiden, Connla, ocean, thy · What happens: hear, answer, say, not be, wave, long · To what, where: this, longing · 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, Connla, ocean, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 strong | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ocean | det |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strong | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 strong | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 strong | advmod |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 waves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waves | det |
| 20 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 strong | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 longing | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 longing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waves | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the maiden | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Connla | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Connla not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | the ocean | as the waves of thy longing; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wave in a quote | thy longing | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | long in a quote | thy | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: 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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