Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 86
"You shall have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman took three small straws and placed them in his hand.
Who acts: You, O'Donnell, lank grey beggarman · What happens: have, say, take, place · To what, where: pieces, three small straws, hand · 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, O'Donnell, lank grey beggarman), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beggarman | det |
| 13 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beggarman | amod |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beggarman | amod |
| 15 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 straws | nummod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 straws | amod |
| 19 | straws | straw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | You | pieces = piece | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | O'Donnell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the lank grey beggarman | three small straws | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | past | the lank grey beggarman not said here | pieces = piece | beggarman's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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