Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 21
"The plan that has come into your head is not bad," said the miller.
Who acts: plan, miller · What happens: come, not be, say · To what, where: head · 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 (plan, miller), 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 | _ | 12 bad | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 plan | acl:relcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bad | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bad | advmod |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bad | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bad | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 miller | det |
| 17 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the plan | your head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the plan | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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