Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 76
"We have indeed," said they, "for we saw the grandest sight to-day.
Who acts: We, things · What happens: have, say, see · To what, where: grandest sight · 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 (We, things), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 15 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 sight | amod |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | things = thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | we | the grandest sight | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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