Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 10
The master of the house asked him what sort was he, and he said: "A young man looking for hire."
Who acts: master, sort, king, young man · What happens: ask, be, say, look · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, sort, king, young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 master | nmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 he | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 he | cop |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 what | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 man | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hire | case |
| 23 | hire | hire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the master of the house | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | sort | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | a young man not said here | for hire | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hire=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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