Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 54
He sent word in to the king that he wished to speak to him if he pleased.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: send, wish, speak · To what, where: word, hunter · 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 (hunter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 king | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 in | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wished | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | obl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speak | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | hunter | word | in the king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in king=Destination | |||
| 2 | wish | past | hunter | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | hunter not said here | hunter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
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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