Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 31

"Oh!" said she to the servants, "my mother is coming, and she will kill me."

Who acts: well, mother · What happens: say, come, kill · To what, where: servants, well · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (well, mother), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 servants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servants	det
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kill	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kill	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kill	aux
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 kill	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	well		the servants	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present · progressive	my mother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill in a quote	future	well	well		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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