Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 57

"I have only to tell you, O king," said the hunter, "that I saw the fairest creature that ever was born in Erin, and I came to tell you of it."

Who acts: hunter · What happens: tell, say, see, bear, come · To what, where: O king, you, that, fairest creature, Erin · 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
9	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 king	compound
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hunter	det
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 saw	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creature	det
22	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 creature	amod
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 born	nsubj:pass
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 born	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 creature	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Erin	case
29	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 born	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 came	xcomp
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the hunter = hunter	O king	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the hunter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see in a quote	past	the hunter = hunter	that					tree rules
4	bear in a quote	past · passive		the fairest creature		Erin	ever		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	come in a quote	past	the hunter = hunter						tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the hunter = hunter not said here		you			of reason	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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