Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 54
"Have you any more to stake?" asked the old man.
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: have, stake, ask · 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, old man), 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 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stake | nsubj |
| 4 | any | any | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 stake | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stake | mark |
| 7 | stake | stake | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stake in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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