Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 24

It can't be," says he to himself, "that they would tell it to me, if there was any virtue in it; but perhaps the sheehogue didn't observe himself when he let the word slip out of his mouth.

Who acts: talk, eyes, virtue, sheehogue, herb · What happens: not be, say, tell, be, not observe, let · To what, where: herb, talk, me, word slip, mouth · 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 (talk, eyes, virtue, sheehogue), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 be	advmod
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 be	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 he	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 virtue	det
25	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 virtue	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 observe	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 observe	cc
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 sheehogue	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sheehogue	det
32	sheehogue	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 observe	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 observe	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 observe	advmod
35	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 be	parataxis
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 observe	obj
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 let	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 let	nsubj
39	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 observe	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 word	det
41	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slip	compound
42	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 let	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 mouth	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 mouth	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mouth	nmod:poss
46	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 let	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not can	can	talk				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		herb	herb		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	would	eyes = eye	talk	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient
4	be a condition, not said to happen	past	any virtue in talk			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not observe	past · do-support	the sheehogue	herb			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	let	past	herb	word slip		herb's mouth	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=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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