Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 94
"And who won't you have, may I be so bold as to ask?" said a farmer, who had just come up with a drove of cattle, and was turning in for a glass.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: not have, be, ask, say, come up, drive · 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 (farmer), 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 | _ | 13 bold | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 have | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bold | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bold | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bold | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bold | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 bold | advmod |
| 13 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bold | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 bold | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bold | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 farmer | det |
| 21 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 come | compound:prt |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 30 drove | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 drove | det |
| 30 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | advcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cattle | case |
| 32 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 drove | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 turning | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 turning | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 turning | aux |
| 36 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADV | _ | 36 turning | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 glass | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 glass | det |
| 40 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turning | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | future | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | a farmer = farmer | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | a farmer = farmer not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | a farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come up | past · perfect | a farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drive | past | a farmer not said here | of cattle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of cattle=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | turn in | past · progressive | a farmer not said here | for a glass | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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