Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 141
"Never welcome you in," cried the captain of the guard, "didn't we hang you this minute, and what brings you here?"
Who acts: you, captain, we · What happens: not welcome in, cry, not hang, bring · To what, where: you · 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 (you, captain, 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 | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 welcome | advmod |
| 3 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 welcome | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 welcome | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcome | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 guard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guard | det |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 captain | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hang | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hang | punct |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hang | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hang | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hang | nsubj |
| 19 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 welcome | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hang | obj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 minute | det |
| 22 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hang | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brings | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brings | cc |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 brings | nsubj |
| 26 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hang | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 brings | obj |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 brings | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not welcome in in a quote | imperative | you not said here | you | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the captain of the guard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hang in a quote | past · do-support | we | you | minute | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present | you | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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