Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 41
"It cannot be," said Guleesh, "that you are dumb.
Who acts: mouth, Guleesh, you · What happens: not be, say, be · 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 (mouth, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dumb | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dumb | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dumb | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 dumb | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dumb | cop |
| 15 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not can in a quote | can | mouth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | 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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