Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 158
"Well," said the king, "I will give a free bridge to your grandfather, a free bridge to your father, and a free bridge each to you three brothers, if you come over to my side tonight."
Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, give, come over · To what, where: free bridge, you, grandfather, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bridge | det |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bridge | amod |
| 15 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 grandfather | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bridge | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bridge | det |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bridge | amod |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grandfather | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 father | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bridge | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bridge | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bridge | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bridge | det |
| 29 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bridge | amod |
| 30 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 bridge | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 brothers | nummod |
| 35 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 40 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 side | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 side | nmod:poss |
| 43 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 44 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | a free bridge each | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the king = king | a free bridge | your grandfather and a free bridge to your father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme to grandfather=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come over a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my side | tonight | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location |
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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