Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 34
There's trouble and grief on her yet," said Guleesh in his own mind, and he spoke to her again: "I am afraid that you must spend this night in my father's house, lady, and if there is anything that I can do for you, tell me, and I'll be your servant."
Who acts: trouble, Guleesh, I, you, anything · What happens: be, say, speak, spend, do, tell · To what, where: horse, house, me, servant · 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 (trouble, Guleesh, I, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grief | cc |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trouble | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 yet | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 yet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 's | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yet | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mind | amod |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Guleesh | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 spoke | advmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 afraid | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 afraid | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 afraid | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 afraid | cop |
| 28 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 spend | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 spend | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 spend | aux |
| 32 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 afraid | ccomp |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spend | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 house | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 father | case |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spend | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lady | punct |
| 41 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 house | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 tell | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 tell | cc |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 is | mark |
| 45 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 46 is | expl |
| 46 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 tell | advcl |
| 47 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 is | nsubj |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 do | obj |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 do | nsubj |
| 50 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 do | aux |
| 51 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 anything | acl:relcl |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 you | case |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 do | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 is | punct |
| 55 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 afraid | conj |
| 56 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 tell | iobj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 servant | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 servant | cc |
| 59 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 63 servant | nsubj |
| 60 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 63 servant | aux |
| 61 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 63 servant | cop |
| 62 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 servant | nmod:poss |
| 63 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 tell | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 afraid | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | trouble and grief | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Guleesh in Guleesh's own mind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | Guleesh | horse | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spend | must | you | my father's house and lady | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | can | I | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | is a | future | I | your servant | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | mind in a quote | Guleesh | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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