Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 98

"Would you tell a body," says the cock that was perched on the ass's head, "who was it that opened the door for the robbers the other night?"

Who acts: you, cock, body · What happens: tell, say, perch, be, open · To what, where: body, cock, head, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cock, body), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cock	det
11	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 perched	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 perched	aux:pass
14	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cock	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ass	det
17	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 ass	case
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 opened	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 opened	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 it	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 it	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 opened	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 opened	nsubj
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 robbers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robbers	det
31	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 opened	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 night	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 night	amod
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	obl:unmarked
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you	a body				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	present	the cock					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	perch	past · passive		the cock	the ass's head			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on head=Destination
4	is a in a quote	past		body				tree rules
5	open in a quote	past	body	the door		night	for the robbers	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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