Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 39

What news to-day?" said the cat. "

What happens: say · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	nsubj:outer
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 to	punct
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 news	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic

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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