Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 42
"Be this from me," said the king; "it must be that some one is troubling my brown horse."
Who acts: this, king, noise · What happens: be, say, trouble · To what, where: brown horse · 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 (this, king, noise), 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 | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 me | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 me | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 troubling | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 troubling | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 troubling | nsubj:outer |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 troubling | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 troubling | aux |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 troubling | mark |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 troubling | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 troubling | aux |
| 20 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 horse | amod |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 troubling | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | this | from the king = king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | trouble in a quote | must · progressive | noise | my brown horse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer |
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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