Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 9
"Let's kill Daisy," said Hudden at last; "if that doesn't make him clear out, nothing will."
Who acts: you, 's, Hudden, that, Dudden · What happens: let, kill, say, not make, not clear out · To what, where: 's, Daisy, last, Dudden · 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, 's, Hudden, that), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | acl |
| 9 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 make | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 make | advmod |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 clear | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 will | punct |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 will | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | Daisy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daisy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hudden | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | that | Dudden | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not clear out in a quote | infinitive | Dudden not said here | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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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