Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 31
"I cannot," said the cake, "for I am broken and bruised, and my blood is on the lips of the sleeping children."
Who acts: cake, blood · What happens: say, break, bruise, be · To what, where: cake, lips · 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 (cake, blood), 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 cake | det |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 broken | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 broken | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bruised | cc |
| 17 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 broken | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lips | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lips | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 blood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lips | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lips | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 lips | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lips | det |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broken | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 28 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 children | compound |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lips | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break in a quote | present · passive | the cake = cake | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bruise in a quote | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my blood | the lips | of the sleeping children | 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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