Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 88
"Sit still, you vagabond," said Dudden; "if we don't mind waiting, you needn't."
Who acts: you, Dudden, we · What happens: sit, vagabond, say, not mind, wait, not need · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dudden, we), 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 | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 2 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 Sit | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vagabond | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 vagabond | nsubj |
| 6 | vagabond | vagabond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | conj |
| 10 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 mind | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 mind | advmod |
| 17 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Sit | conj |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mind | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | parataxis |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 need | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | imperative | you not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | vagabond in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dudden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | wait in a quote | gerund | we not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not need in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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