Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 152
"Go where you will," said the captain, "and as fast as you please if you'll only go far enough.
Who acts: captain, you · What happens: go, say · 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 (captain, you), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 will | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fast | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 18 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 23 go | discourse |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fast | advcl |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | you | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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