Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 88

"Tell me which of them is the king's daughter," said Guleesh, when he was becoming a little used to the noise and the light.

Who acts: Guleesh · What happens: tell, be, say, become, use · To what, where: me, daughter, little · 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), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 daughter	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 which	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 daughter	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 becoming	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 becoming	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 becoming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 becoming	aux
20	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 becoming	obl:unmarked
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 becoming	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 noise	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 light	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 light	det
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noise	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present		the king's daughter			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Guleesh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become	past · progressive	GULEESH	a little			tree rules
5	use	participle	GULEESH not said here			to the noise and the light	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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