Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 89

She accordingly brought him in, and placing half-a-dozen of the cakes we spoke of before him, together with a can or two of butter, a side of boiled bacon, and a stack of cabbage, she desired him to help himself--for this, be it known, was long before the invention of potatoes.

Who acts: quarter, we · What happens: bring, place, dozen, speak, boil, desire · To what, where: Cucullin, cakes, half · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	in	in	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dozen	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dozen	cc
8	placing	place	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 dozen	nsubj
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 dozen	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 dozen	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dozen	det
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 a	punct
13	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cakes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cakes	det
16	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dozen	nmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cakes	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 together	punct
23	together	together	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 can	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 can	det
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	advcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 two	cc
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 can	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 butter	case
30	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 two	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 side	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 side	det
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 butter	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 bacon	case
35	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 bacon	amod
36	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stack	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stack	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stack	det
40	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 butter	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 cabbage	case
42	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stack	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 desired	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 desired	nsubj
45	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 two	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 desired	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 help	mark
48	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 desired	xcomp
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 help	obj
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 this	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 this	case
52	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 help	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 known	punct
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 known	aux:pass
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 known	nsubj:pass
56	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 help	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 invention	punct
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 invention	cop
59	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 invention	advmod
60	before	before	ADP	_	62 invention	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 invention	det
62	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 desired	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 potatoes	case
64	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 invention	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	quarter		Cucullin		accordingly, together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	place	gerund						vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
3	dozen						of the cakes	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	we	the cakes not said here			of Cucullin	tree rules
5	boil	participle						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	desire	past	quarter	Cucullin				tree rules
7	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	quarter not said here	Cucullin			for this	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
8	know	infinitive · passive		half				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
9	is	past				before the invention	of potatoes; long property	tree rules

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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