Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 10
"I'll give you," said the henwife, "a finer dress than either of them has ever seen.
Who acts: henwife · What happens: give, say, see · To what, where: you, either · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 henwife | det |
| 10 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dress | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dress | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dress | det |
| 14 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 dress | amod |
| 15 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 henwife | conj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 17 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 either | nmod |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dress | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the henwife and a finer dress = henwife | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the henwife and a finer dress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect · passive | either | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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