Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 60
I'll imitate ye," and he cried out as well as they: "My horse, and bridle, and saddle!
Who acts: I, GULEESH, men · What happens: imitate, cry out, horse, bridle · To what, where: ye
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, GULEESH, men), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 imitate | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imitate | aux |
| 3 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 imitate | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 imitate | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imitate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imitate | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 cried | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 horse | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 horse | nsubj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 horse | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 horse | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bridle | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bridle | cc |
| 21 | bridle | bridle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imitate | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saddle | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saddle | cc |
| 24 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imitate | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 imitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate | future | I | ye | saddle obl | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express in a quote | past | GULEESH | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | horse | men = man | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bridle | infinitive | I not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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