Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 55
The king answered the message and came out to speak to the man. "
Who acts: king · What happens: answer, come out, speak · To what, where: message · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 speak | mark |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speak | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | the message | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent message=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the king not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the king not said here | to the man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=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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