Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 57
Then Ivan thought of the third counsel, and he said "Let us go and give it to the great lord."
Who acts: Ivan, us · What happens: think, say, let, go, give · To what, where: us, counsel, great lord · 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, us), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 counsel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 counsel | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 counsel | amod |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 13 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Let | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lord | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lord | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lord | amod |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ivan | then | of the third counsel | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | counsel | the great lord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lord=Recipient |
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/pg7885/26/57/