Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 71
At last they stood still, and a man of them said to Guleesh: "Guleesh, do you know where you are now?"
Who acts: men, man, you · What happens: stand, say, know, be · To what, where: last, Guleesh · 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 (men, man, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Guleesh | case |
| 14 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Guleesh | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Guleesh | punct |
| 17 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Guleesh | parataxis |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 are | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 are | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 are | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Guleesh | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Guleesh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | men = man | last | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a man of hounds | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to guleesh=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | you | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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