Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 50
"I am, O king, without question, and necessity made me come.
Who acts: king, necessity · What happens: be, make, come · To what, where: king
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 (king, necessity), 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 | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 king | case |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 question | punct |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 12 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | king | of king and question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | necessity | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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