Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 54

"Guleesh, Guleesh, isn't it the nice boy you are that you can't wait till ten o'clock or till twelve, but that you must be coming to me at this hour, looking for marriage, you and your sweetheart?

Who acts: Guleesh, you · What happens: not be, not wait, come, look · To what, where: nice boy, Guleesh

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 (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	_	2 Guleesh	punct
2	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Guleesh	punct
4	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Guleesh	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Guleesh	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 boy	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boy	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 are	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 wait	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wait	advmod
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 are	advcl
19	till	till	ADP	_	21 o'clock	case
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 o'clock	nummod
21	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 twelve	cc
23	till	till	ADP	_	24 twelve	case
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 o'clock	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 coming	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 coming	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 coming	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 coming	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 coming	aux
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 boy	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 coming	obl
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 hour	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 hour	det
36	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coming	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looking	punct
38	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 coming	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 marriage	case
40	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looking	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 you	punct
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 looking	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sweetheart	cc
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 sweetheart	nmod:poss
45	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 you	conj
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Guleesh and Guleesh	the nice boy				tree rules
2	not wait in a quote	can	you			till ten o'clock		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come in a quote	must · progressive	you		Guleesh	hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	look in a quote	gerund	you not said here				for marriage	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for marriage=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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