Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 60
"Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and whether you're out of your senses really, or are only making a joke of me."
Who acts: Guleesh, you, senses, me · What happens: say, tell, be, make, joke · To what, where: Guleesh, young lady, senses, joke · 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 (Guleesh, you, senses, me), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Guleesh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Guleesh | 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 | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 18 lady | advmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lady | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lady | cop |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 making | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 making | cc |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 senses | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 senses | nsubj |
| 23 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 senses | cop |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 senses | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 senses | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 senses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 making | nsubj |
| 28 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 making | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 making | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 making | cc |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 making | aux |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 making | advmod |
| 33 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 joke | det |
| 35 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 making | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 joke | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Guleesh | Guleesh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this young lady | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | your senses | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present · progressive | your senses | a joke of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product | ||||
| 6 | joke in a quote | me | nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=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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