Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 17
"And if the _omadawn_ only knew that there's an herb growing up by his own door, and if he were to boil it and give it to her, she'd be well," said another voice.
Who acts: omadawn, herb, voice · What happens: know, be, grow up, boil, give, say · To what, where: omadawn, woman · 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 (omadawn, herb, 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 | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 well | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 omadawn | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 omadawn | punct |
| 6 | omadawn | omadawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 well | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 knew | advmod |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 omadawn | acl:relcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 's | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 's | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 herb | det |
| 14 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 's | nsubj |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 herb | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 growing | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 door | amod |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boil | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 boil | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 boil | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 boil | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 boil | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 boil | mark |
| 27 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knew | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 boil | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 give | cc |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 boil | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 give | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 give | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 omadawn | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 well | nsubj |
| 36 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 well | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 well | cop |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 said | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 well | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 well | punct |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 voice | det |
| 43 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 said | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | the omadawn not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a herb | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow up in a quote | gerund | a herb not said here | by herb's own door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location | ||||
| 4 | boil a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | herb | omadawn | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | herb not said here | omadawn | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | the omadawn | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | another voice | 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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