Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 65
"So," says Tom to the king, "will you let me have the other half of the princess if I bring you the flail?"
Who acts: Tom, king · What happens: say, let, have, bring · To what, where: king, Tom, other half, flail · 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 (Tom, king), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 half | amod |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 half | nmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flail | det |
| 28 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Tom | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | future | the king = king | Tom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | Tom not said here | the other half of the princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Tom | the flail | the king = king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination flail=Theme |
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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