Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 14
Then listen if the twins say anything.
Who acts: you, twins · What happens: listen, say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, twins), 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 | 2 listen | advmod |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twins | det |
| 5 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | then | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | the twins | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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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