Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 67
They told the young girl what it was they intended to do, and she showed by her eyes that she was obliged to them.
Who acts: house, girl · What happens: tell, intend, do, show, oblige · To what, where: young girl, girl, house · 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 (house, girl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 intended | aux:pass |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 intended | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | nsubj |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 showed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 obliged | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obliged | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obliged | aux:pass |
| 23 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 showed | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obliged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | house | the young girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | intend | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | show | past | girl | by girl's eyes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | girl | house | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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