Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 91
The rose and the lily were fighting together in her face, and one could not tell which of them got the victory.
Who acts: rose, one · What happens: fight, not tell, get · To what, where: face, victory · 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 (rose, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lily | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lily | det |
| 5 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fighting | aux |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 fighting | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fighting | conj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 got | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | obl |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 victory | det |
| 23 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | the rose and the lily | woman's face | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | could | one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | past | the victory | of rose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary victory=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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