Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 23
Guleesh, isn't that a nice turn you did us, and we so kind to you?
Who acts: Guleesh, you · What happens: not be, do · To what, where: nice turn, us
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, you), 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 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Guleesh | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 turn | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 turn | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 turn | det |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turn | amod |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | acl:relcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 did | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kind | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 kind | nsubj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 kind | advmod |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turn | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kind | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Guleesh | a nice turn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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