Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 76
Are you satisfied, Guleesh, and will you do what we're telling you?"
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, do, tell · To what, where: 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 (you, we), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 satisfied | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Guleesh | punct |
| 5 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 satisfied | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 satisfied | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 telling | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 telling | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 telling | aux |
| 14 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 do | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 telling | iobj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 satisfied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | Guleesh vocative; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | we | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
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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