Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 27
"I cannot," said the feet-water; "I am scattered on the ground, and my path is down to the Lough."
Who acts: water, path · What happens: say, scatter, be · To what, where: water, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, path), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 can | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feet | det |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 water | nmod:poss |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 feet | punct |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 scattered | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 scattered | aux:pass |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scattered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 down | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 down | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 path | nmod:poss |
| 23 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 down | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 down | cop |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 scattered | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Lough | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Lough | det |
| 28 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 down | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the feet's water | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scatter in a quote | present · passive | the feet's water = water | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my path | to the Lough; down 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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