Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 12
"Oh, Conall," said she, "why didst not thou let the king do his own pleasure to thy sons, rather than be going now, while I know not if ever I shall see thee more?"
Who acts: wife, thou · What happens: say, not do, let, pleasure, go, not know · To what, where: king, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, thou), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 didst | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 didst | advmod |
| 12 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleasure | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 didst | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 didst | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleasure | aux |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pleasure | amod |
| 21 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sons | case |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 sons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pleasure | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 26 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 going | cc |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 rather | fixed |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pleasure | parataxis |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 going | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 know | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | parataxis |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 know | advmod |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 see | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 know | ccomp |
| 41 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 see | obj |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 see | obj |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | thou | the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pleasure in a quote | present · do-support | to thy sons | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive · progressive | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not know in a quote | present | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | shall | wife | thee | ever | 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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