Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 7
"Why," said Conall, "should not I do the pleasure of the king, though there should be no souls of my sons in dread at all.
Who acts: Conall, souls · What happens: say, not do, be, please · To what, where: pleasure, king · 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 (Conall, souls), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pleasure | det |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleasure | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 be | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 souls | det |
| 24 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 be | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sons | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 souls | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dread | case |
| 29 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sons | nmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 all | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 dread | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | should | Conall | the pleasure of the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | should | no souls of my sons in dread at all | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | please in a quote | the king | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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