Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 52

Och, it's well for you, white moon," says he, "that's turning round, turning round, as you please yourself, and no man can put you back.

Who acts: place, white moon, moon, you, man · What happens: be, say, turn round, please, put back · To what, where: yourself, you · 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 (place, white moon, moon, you), 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	Och	och	INTJ	_	10 moon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Och	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 moon	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 moon	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 moon	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 moon	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 moon	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moon	amod
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turning	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turning	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 turning	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 turning	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 turning	aux
19	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 says	ccomp
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 turning	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turning	punct
22	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 turning	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turning	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 please	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 please	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 please	nsubj
27	please	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 turning	parataxis
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 please	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 please	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 put	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	place			for white moon; well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	white moon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn round	present · progressive	moon			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	turn round	gerund	moon not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	please	present	you	yourself			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
6	put back	can	no man		you		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal

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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