Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 96
"Musha, then, she is grieved," said the little man; "for it's against her own will she's marrying, and she has no love for the husband she is to marry.
Who acts: Musha, little man, trace · What happens: grieve, say, be, marry, have · To what, where: Musha, love · 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 (Musha, little man, trace), 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 Musha | punct |
| 2 | Musha | Musha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 grieved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grieved | aux:pass |
| 8 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Musha | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 marrying | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 marrying | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 own | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 own | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 own | cop |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 own | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 marrying | obl |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 marrying | aux |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 marrying | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 marrying | aux |
| 26 | marrying | marry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 has | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 love | det |
| 32 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 husband | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 husband | det |
| 35 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 marry | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 marry | cop |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 marry | mark |
| 39 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 husband | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve in a quote | present · passive | Musha not said here | Musha | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | trace | own property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future · progressive | Musha | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Musha | no love | for the husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Musha | marry 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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