Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 12

"I'll have," said Trembling, "a dress as white as snow, and green shoes for my feet."

Who acts: Trembling · What happens: have, say · 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 (Trembling), 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dress	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dress	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dress	det
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Trembling	appos
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 white	case
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dress	amod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 snow	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 white	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shoes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shoes	cc
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shoes	amod
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shoes	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 shoes	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 shoes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	Trembling						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Trembling						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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