Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 14
"It was," said another man; "he won't do it again."
Who acts: trick, man · What happens: be, say, not do · To what, where: trick · 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 (trick, man), 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 | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | trick | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | future | man | trick | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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