Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 27
"He'll have no good to get out of the young girl," said the little man that was talking to him in the palace before that, and as he said the word he moved over to her and struck her a slap on the side of the head. "
Who acts: Guleesh, little man · What happens: have, get out, say, talk, move over, strike · To what, where: good, young girl, man, palace, word, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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, little man), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 good | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 talking | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 talking | aux |
| 22 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talking | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 talking | obl |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 that | case |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 talking | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 said | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 word | det |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 moved | nsubj |
| 38 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 word | acl:relcl |
| 39 | over | over | ADV | _ | 38 moved | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 moved | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 struck | cc |
| 43 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | conj |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 struck | obj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 slap | det |
| 46 | slap | slap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 struck | obj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 side | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 side | det |
| 49 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 struck | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 head | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 head | det |
| 52 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 side | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | Guleesh | no good | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get out in a quote | to-infinitive | the young girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | talk | past · progressive | the little man | man | the palace | before the little man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | the word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 6 | move over | past | Guleesh | the word not said here | girl | over property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Patient to she=Result | ||
| 7 | strike | past | Guleesh not said here | girl | the side of the head | 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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