Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 104

"Mother," said he, "I'm hungry--get me something to eat."

Who acts: Mother, yell · What happens: say, be, get, eat · To what, where: something, Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, yell), 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	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hungry	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hungry	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hungry	cop
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 hungry	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	obj
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 get	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	yell			hungry property	tree rules
3	get in a quote	infinitive		something	Mother		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary something=Theme
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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