Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 36

"Lady," said Guleesh, "tell me what you would like me to do now.

Who acts: Lady, you · What happens: say, tell, like, do · To what, where: Lady · 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 (Lady, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lady	punct
2	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lady	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lady	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 like	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 like	xcomp
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 do	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Lady not said here		Lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	would	you	Lady			tree rules
4	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			now	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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