Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 11
There's no use in your calling for your horse to-night.
Who acts: use, your · What happens: be, call · To what, where: calling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, your), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 calling | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 calling | nmod:poss |
| 7 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no use | your calling for your horse to night; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in calling=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | your | for your horse to night | nom calling «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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