Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 102
Then Trembling spoke up, and said: "Do you stay here till I return."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tremble, speak up, say, stay, return · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 spoke | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 return | nsubj |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | speak up speech: other | past | then | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | present · do-support | you | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return in a quote | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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