Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 179
He's not done yet,' said she, and I cried out from the caldron, 'Mammy, mammy, it's boiling I am.'
Who acts: man, wisest, I, caldron · What happens: not do, say, cry out, be · To what, where: Mammy, caldron, boiling · 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 (man, wisest, I, caldron), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 caldron | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 caldron | det |
| 17 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ' | punct |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 Mammy | punct |
| 20 | Mammy | Mammy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mammy | punct |
| 22 | mammy | mammy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Mammy | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 boiling | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 boiling | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 boiling | cop |
| 26 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Mammy | appos |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 am | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 boiling | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present · passive | man | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wisest = wise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | I | Mammy and mammy | the caldron | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | caldron | boiling | 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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