Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 8
"Why don't you come to breakfast, my dear?" said she.
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: not come, say · To what, where: breakfast · 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, wife), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 breakfast | case |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dear | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | present · do-support | you | breakfast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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