Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 28

Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb?

Who acts: girl · What happens: say, be · To what, where: good · 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 (girl), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 says	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talk	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 talk	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	cop
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 talk	case
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	parataxis
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 talk	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Guleesh	punct
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Guleesh	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Guleesh	punct
18	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 good	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 good	nsubj
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Guleesh	amod
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 you	aux
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 you	nsubj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 you	cop
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 good	nsubj
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 dumb	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dumb	nsubj
29	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 dumb	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 dumb	cop
31	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 you	advcl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		good	now		tree rules
2	is	future	girl			without talk	tree rules
3	is	future	girl			to you	tree rules
4	is	future	girl			dumb 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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