Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 73
"By all you heard and saw since I put you into my wallet, take charge of this lady and of the carriage and horses, and have them ready for me whenever I want them."
Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: hear, see, put, take, have, want · To what, where: you, wallet, charge, horses, lady
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, stranger), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 wallet | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 17 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charge | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carriage | cc |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 carriage | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 carriage | det |
| 24 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lady | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 horses | cc |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carriage | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 have | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 ready | obl |
| 34 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 want | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 want | nsubj |
| 36 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 want | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | you | by all | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | stranger | you | my wallet | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | charge of this lady and the carriage and horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | horses = horse | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | stranger | horses = horse | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 7 | charge in a quote | this lady and the carriage and horses | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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