Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 20
Ivan," said they, "come with us; glad are we to see you.
Who acts: Ivan, merchants, we · What happens: say, come, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, merchants, we), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivan | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivan | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | parataxis |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | cop |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | merchants = merchant | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | see property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/20/