Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 30

When they came to the place where they used to lodge, Ivan said, "I must see the host."

Who acts: cost, Ivan · What happens: come, use, lodge, say, see · To what, where: place, host · 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 (cost, Ivan), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 used	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lodge	mark
11	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
13	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 host	det
21	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	cost		the place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	use	past	cost			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lodge	to-infinitive	cost not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Ivan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see in a quote	must	Ivan	the host		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=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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