Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 145

She asked the boy "Did you tell the master what I told you to tell him?"

Who acts: whale, boy, master · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: boy, master · 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 (whale, boy, master), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 told	obj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 master	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	whale		the boy	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the boy = boy	the master		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	whale	the master	the boy = boy	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the master not said here		boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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