Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 163

We are now," said they, "going home to tell our father that you are now safe from the hands of the king."

Who acts: We, locks, you · What happens: be, say, go, tell · To what, where: father, hands · 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 (We, locks, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 now	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 now	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	ccomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	advcl
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 safe	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 safe	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 safe	cop
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 safe	advmod
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	ccomp
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 safe	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 king	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hands	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We				now property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	locks = lock					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	gerund					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		our father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
5	is	present	you		the hands of the king	now	safe property	tree rules

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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