Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 147
"Please your Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling vagabond, but here he is back again as well as ever."
Who acts: Majesty, we · What happens: say, hange, stroll, be · To what, where: captain, vagabond · 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 (Majesty, 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 | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 Majesty | discourse |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captain | det |
| 9 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanged | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanged | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hanged | nsubj |
| 13 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 strolling | mark |
| 15 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hanged | advcl |
| 16 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strolling | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 here | cc |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 again | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 again | cop |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 again | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 here | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 27 ever | cc |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 again | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | your Majesty | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hange in a quote | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stroll in a quote | gerund | we not said here | vagabond | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vagabond=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Majesty | again property | tree rules |
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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