Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 5
There we keep holiday alway, nor need we help from any in our joy.
Who acts: we, our · What happens: keep, need, help, joy · To what, where: holiday alway, any
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 (we, our), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 keep | expl |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alway | compound |
| 5 | alway | alway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 need | cc |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | nsubj |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 any | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 help | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 joy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 any | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | we | holiday alway | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alway=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | we not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | present | we | any | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | joy | our | nom joy «feeling 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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