Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 15

"Isn't he a prime lad, the same lad! to take a woman with him that never said as much to him as, 'How do you do?' since this time last year!" says the third man.

Who acts: man, you, third man · What happens: not be, take, not say, do, say · To what, where: prime lad, woman, much · 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 (man, you, third 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	_	7 lad	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lad	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 lad	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lad	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lad	det
6	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lad	amod
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lad	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lad	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 woman	nmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 said	advmod
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 take	advcl
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 much	nmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
29	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 do	advmod
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
35	since	since	ADP	_	37 time	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 time	det
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 year	amod
39	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl:unmarked
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
42	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 says	nsubj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	man	a prime lad				tree rules
2	take in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here		a woman	time; year	with man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
3	not say speech: ask in a quote	past	man not said here	much			to man	tree rules
4	do in a quote	present · do-support	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	the third man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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