Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 51
"However they are," said the nurse, "be you off from here and take another road.
Who acts: Deirdre, nurse · What happens: be, say, be off, take · To what, where: you, road · 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 (Deirdre, nurse), 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 | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 are | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nurse | det |
| 9 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 be | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 be | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 here | case |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 be | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | conj |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Deirdre | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be off in a quote | infinitive | you | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | another road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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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