Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 10
And the voice said: "Do you see this great head of mine?"
Who acts: voice, you · What happens: say, see · To what, where: great head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 head | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mine | case |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | this great head of mine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
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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