Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 95
It can't be," said Guleesh, "that there's grief on her, when everybody round her is so full of sport and merriment."
Who acts: trace, Guleesh, that, everybody · What happens: not be, say, 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 (trace, Guleesh, that, everybody), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 be | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 's | nsubj |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 's | expl |
| 13 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 's | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grief | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 full | mark |
| 19 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 full | nsubj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 everybody | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 full | advmod |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grief | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sport | case |
| 26 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 merriment | cc |
| 28 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sport | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not can | can | trace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | present | that | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | everybody | of sport and merriment; full 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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