Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 78
"'Why will you be silent?
Who acts: you · What happens: be
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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 silent | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 silent | punct |
| 3 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 silent | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 silent | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 silent | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 silent | cop |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | you | silent property | 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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