Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 64
"Not at all," said the second wife; "we will go down to meet her."
Who acts: second wife, we · What happens: say, go down, meet · To what, where: 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 (second wife, we), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 all | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 meet | mark |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go down in a quote | future | we | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | well | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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