Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 71

"I want to speak to the big divel of all," says Tom: "open the gate."

Who acts: Tom · What happens: want, speak, say, open · To what, where: gate · 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), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 divel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 divel	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 divel	amod
9	divel	divel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 divel	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 open	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 open	punct
18	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 open	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 open	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Tom			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		to the big divel of all	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to divel=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	Tom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open in a quote	infinitive		the gate		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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