Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 31
"The host," they cried; "what do you want with the host?
Who acts: cost, you · What happens: cry, want · 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, you), 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 host | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 host | det |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 host | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 want | obj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 host | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 host | det |
| 16 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | cost | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | with the host | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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