Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 99
"Good luck and victory follow you, lad!" said the king's daughter. "
Who acts: Good luck, daughter · What happens: follow, say · To what, where: you · 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 (Good luck, daughter), 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 follow | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 luck | amod |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 victory | cc |
| 5 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luck | conj |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lad | punct |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 lad | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lad | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | present | Good luck and victory | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the king's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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