Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 13
And when its neck was shown, the thundering voice came again and said: "Do you see this great neck of mine?"
Who acts: thundering voice, you · What happens: show, come, say, see · To what, where: neck, great neck · 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 (thundering 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 | _ | 6 shown | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 shown | advmod |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | aux:pass |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | compound |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | parataxis |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 neck | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 neck | amod |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mine | case |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | head's neck | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the thundering voice | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the thundering voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | this great neck of mine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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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