Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 154

And as a sign now look, the finger is off me."

Who acts: finger · What happens: look, be

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 (finger), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 sign	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 finger	det
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 me	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 me	cop
11	off	off	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present					now	as a sign	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	the finger					off me	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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