Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 30
It's very wonderful," said he to himself, "that I never noticed this herb before.
Who acts: house, sun, I · What happens: be, say, not notice · To what, where: sun, that · 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 (house, sun, I), 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 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wonderful | advmod |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 noticed | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 noticed | advmod |
| 16 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 herb | det |
| 18 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noticed | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 noticed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | house | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | sun | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past | I | that | before property | tree rules |
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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