Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 56
But ubbubboo!" said he, suddenly, as he looked again at the young girl, "in the name of God, who have you here?
Who acts: ubbubboo, name · What happens: say, look, have, name · To what, where: God · 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 (ubbubboo, name), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | ubbubboo | ubbubboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ubbubboo | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ubbubboo | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 suddenly | punct |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 looked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 God | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 name | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 have | advmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ubbubboo | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | ubbubboo | again | at the young girl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | the name of God | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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