Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 47

Glory be to God," said he, "I know now what I'll do; I'll bring her to the priest's house, and he won't refuse me to keep the lady and care for her."

Who acts: Glory, I · What happens: be, say, know, do, bring, not refuse · To what, where: girl, house, me, 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 (Glory, I), 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	Glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 God	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 God	case
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Glory	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Glory	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Glory	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 know	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bring	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	aux
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 priest	det
25	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 priest	case
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 refuse	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 refuse	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 refuse	nsubj
31	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 refuse	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 refuse	advmod
33	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 refuse	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 keep	mark
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 refuse	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lady	det
38	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keep	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 care	cc
40	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lady	conj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 keep	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 refuse	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive					to God	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Glory					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	Glory			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	future	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	bring	future	I	girl	the priest's house			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination
6	not refuse	future	Glory	me				tree rules
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Glory not said here	the lady and care			for girl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

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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