Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 59
"I'll soon let you know," said the old man, and he took from his pocket a long cord and a wand.
Who acts: old man, you, man · What happens: let, know, say, take · To what, where: you, long cord, pocket · 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 (old man, you, 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pocket | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl | ||
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cord | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cord | amod |
| 23 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wand | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wand | det |
| 26 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cord | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | future | the old man = man | you | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past | man | a long cord and a wand | man's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cord=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location |
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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