Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 24

"You may as well play with him," said the story-teller's wife; "and perhaps you'll have something to tell the king in the evening."

Who acts: You · What happens: play, say, have, tell · To what, where: something, king · 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), 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	_	6 play	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 play	aux
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 play	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 play	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 play	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 teller	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 teller	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
15	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wife	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 teller	case
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 ;	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 something	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 evening	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 evening	det
32	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	play in a quote	may	You				with man	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	future	you	something			perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	something not said here	the king	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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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