Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 69
"In before me, thou crone; I like not flattery out of doors; go in and let's hear thy speech."
Who acts: thou, herd, 's, thy · What happens: crone, not like, go in, let, hear, speak · To what, where: flattery, doors, 's, speech · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, herd, 's, thy), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crone | punct |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 crone | nsubj |
| 7 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 me | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 me | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 like | advmod |
| 12 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 like | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 doors | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 doors | case |
| 15 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flattery | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | conj |
| 21 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 speech | nmod:poss |
| 24 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hear | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crone in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not like in a quote | present | herd | flattery | doors | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flattery=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in in a quote | infinitive | herd not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | herd not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | thy speech | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | speak in a quote | thy | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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