Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 251
"Come with me," says the shoemaker, "I am well acquainted with the servants at the castle, and you shall get a sight of the king's son and all the company."
Who acts: shoemaker, you · What happens: come, say, acquaint, get, sight · To what, where: shoemaker, sight, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, you), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoemaker | det |
| 9 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 acquainted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 acquainted | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 acquainted | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 acquainted | advmod |
| 15 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 says | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 servants | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servants | det |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 acquainted | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 servants | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 acquainted | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sight | det |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 son | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 king | case |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sight | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 company | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 company | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 company | det |
| 37 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sight | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | with the shoemaker = shoemaker | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | acquaint speech: other in a quote | present · passive | the shoemaker = shoemaker | with the servants at the castle; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | shall | you | a sight of the king's son and all company | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sight in a quote | the king's son | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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