Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 20

"God save all here!" said Fin, good-humouredly, on putting his honest face into his own door.

Who acts: God, Fin · What happens: save, say, put · To what, where: honest face, own door · 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 (God, Fin), 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	_	3 save	punct
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 here	advmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 save	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	xcomp
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 humouredly	punct
13	humouredly	humouredly	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 putting	punct
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 putting	mark
16	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
18	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 face	amod
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 putting	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 door	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 door	amod
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 putting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	save in a quote	infinitive	God		here		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past	Fin			good property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	gerund	Fin not said here	God's honest face	God's own door		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Goal

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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