Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 107
"Now," said the lank grey beggarman; "has any one a mind to run after the dog and on the course?"
Who acts: lank grey beggarman · What happens: say, have, run · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lank grey beggarman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | 9 beggarman | det |
| 7 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beggarman | amod |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beggarman | amod |
| 9 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mind | det |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mind | acl |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 dog | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 course | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 course | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 course | det |
| 25 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the lank grey beggarman | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | any one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | after the dog and the course | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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