Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 35
"He wants," says the red-headed fellow, "to make hares of your best men."
Who acts: stranger, headed fellow · What happens: want, say, head, make · To what, where: hares · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, headed fellow), 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 | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 headed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 10 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 16 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 men | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hares | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | stranger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the headed fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | hares of your best men | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hare=Product |
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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