Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 40

I had better cover this hole," said he, "or people in the next house may see our deeds."

Who acts: I, hole · What happens: have, say, see · To what, where: better cover, deeds · 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 (I, hole), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cover	amod
4	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 people	cc
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 people	nmod
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 deeds	nmod:poss
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	I	better cover	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	may	hole	our deeds	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=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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