Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 16
"Perhaps be likes to be looking at her," said another voice.
Who acts: likes, voice · What happens: be, look, say · To what, where: likes · 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 (likes, voice), 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 looking | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 likes | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 likes | cop |
| 4 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looking | aux |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | likes | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | likes | at woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | another voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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