Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 113
"I'm here before you, ready for combat," answered the prince.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, answer · 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 (prince), 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 here | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 ready | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 answered | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 combat | case |
| 10 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the prince = prince | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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