Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 3

"Andrew Coffey, 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! 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Andrew	punct
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
3	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Andrew	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Andrew	punct
5	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Andrew	conj
6	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Andrew	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Andrew	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Andrew and 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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