Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 112

Then all the princes and great men spoke up, and said to the son of the king of Emania: "You'll have to fight now for her before we let her go with you."

Who acts: princes, son, we, lady · What happens: speak up, say, have, fight, let, go · To what, where: son, lady · 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 (princes, son, we, lady), 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	8 spoke	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 princes	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princes	det
4	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoke	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 men	cc
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 princes	conj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 spoke	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoke	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 son	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Emania	case
20	Emania	Emania	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 king	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fight	mark
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	xcomp
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 fight	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fight	obj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 let	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 let	nsubj
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fight	advcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 go	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak up speech: other	past	all princes and great men			then		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	all princes and great men not said here		the son of the king of Emania			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	future	the son of the king of Emania = son					tree rules
4	fight in a quote	to-infinitive	the son of the king of Emania = son not said here	lady		now		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Co-Agent
5	let in a quote	past	we	lady				tree rules
6	go in a quote	infinitive	lady not said here				with the son of the king of Emania = son	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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