Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 61
"I'm not telling a word of lie, nor making a joke of you," said Guleesh; "but it was from the palace of the king of France I carried off this lady, and she is the daughter of the king of France."
Who acts: Guleesh, joke, lady, you · What happens: not tell, make, say, be, carry off, word · To what, where: word, joke, palace, lady, daughter, lie · 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, joke, lady, 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 telling | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 telling | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 telling | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 telling | advmod |
| 5 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 telling | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lie | case |
| 9 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 making | cc |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 telling | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 joke | det |
| 14 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 joke | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 telling | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 telling | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 palace | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 palace | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 palace | cop |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carried | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 France | case |
| 33 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 king | nmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 carried | nsubj |
| 35 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | parataxis |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 carried | compound:prt |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 lady | det |
| 38 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carried | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 daughter | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 daughter | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 daughter | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 daughter | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 daughter | det |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carried | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 king | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 king | det |
| 47 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 daughter | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 France | case |
| 49 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 king | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | Guleesh | a word of lie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | Guleesh not said here | a joke of you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Guleesh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | joke | the palace | of the king of France | tree rules | |||
| 5 | carry off in a quote | past | Guleesh | this lady | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | lady | the daughter | of the king of France | tree rules | |||
| 7 | word in a quote | lie | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | joke in a quote | you | 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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