Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 59
"By my hand," said Guleesh, "my boy, that's not bad.
Who acts: Guleesh, that · What happens: say, not be · 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 (Guleesh, that), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Guleesh | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bad | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 bad | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bad | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bad | advmod |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Guleesh | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | by my hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | that | bad 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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