Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 11
"Well," said the master of the house, "I was going tomorrow to look for a man to mind my cows.
Who acts: master · What happens: say, go, look, mind · To what, where: cows · 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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 master | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 16 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 mind | mark |
| 23 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 look | advcl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cows | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mind | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master of the house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past · progressive | the master of the house = master | tomorrow | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | the master of the house = master not said here | for a man | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | to-infinitive | the master of the house = master not said here | my cows | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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