Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 67

"Thank you, ma'am," says he, sitting down; "you're Mrs. M'Coul, I suppose?"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: thank, say, sit down, be, suppose · To what, where: ma'am, you, God, Mrs. · 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 (you, I), 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 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ma'am	punct
5	ma'am	ma'am	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 says	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 suppose	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Mrs.	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 Mrs.	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Mrs.	cop
17	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 suppose	obl
18	M'Coul	M'Coul	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Mrs.	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 suppose	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 suppose	nsubj
21	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 suppose	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		ma'am	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: ask	present		God			tree rules
3	sit down	gerund				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	you	Mrs.			tree rules
5	suppose in a quote	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how 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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