Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 17

ANDREW COFFEY! tell me a story."

Who acts: ANDREW · What happens: tell · To what, where: story, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ANDREW), 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	ANDREW	ANDREW	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	COFFEY	COFFEY	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ANDREW	flat
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 ANDREW	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	ANDREW	a story	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic

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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