Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 51
With that Patrick opened his lips: "Andrew Coffey," said he.
Who acts: Patrick · What happens: open, say · To what, where: lips · 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 (Patrick), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 opened | mark |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Patrick | det |
| 3 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Andrew | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Andrew | punct |
| 9 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | conj |
| 10 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Andrew | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | that Patrick | Patrick's lips | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Patrick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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