Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 4
"I come from the Plains of the Ever Living," she said, "there where there is neither death nor sin.
Who acts: Connla, death · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: Plains · 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 (Connla, death), 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Plains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Plains | det |
| 6 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Living | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Living | det |
| 9 | Ever | Ever | PROPN | _ | 10 Living | compound |
| 10 | Living | Living | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Plains | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 where | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 where | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 where | expl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 said | conj |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 where | cop |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 death | cc:preconj |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 where | nsubj |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 sin | cc |
| 24 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Connla | the Plains of the Ever Living | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Connla | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | death nor sin | there | where property | 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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