Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 20
"Don't bother your head with him; we'll be going."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not bother, go · To what, where: head · 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 (you, we), 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 | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bother | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bother | advmod |
| 4 | bother | bother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bother | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bother | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bother | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your head | with herb | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | future · progressive | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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