Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 142
When he said me then, 'Is the ring fitting thee?'
Who acts: Conall · What happens: say, be · To what, where: me, ring · 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 (Conall), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | iobj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ring | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ring | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ring | amod |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 fitting | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ring | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | me | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the ring | 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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