Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 87
"You'll now come in," said she, "and eat a bit of such humble fare as we can give you.
Who acts: You, quarter, we · What happens: come in, say, eat, give · To what, where: bit, you · 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, quarter, we), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fare | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fare | amod |
| 19 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fare | amod |
| 20 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eat | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in in a quote | future | You | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | quarter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | quarter not said here | a bit of such humble fare | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | can | we | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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