Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 64
Said a man of them to him: "Are you coming with us to-night, Guleesh?"
Who acts: man, horse · What happens: say, come · To what, where: horse, Guleesh · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, horse), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 man | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 10 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 coming | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Guleesh | punct |
| 19 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | a man of people | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | horse | Guleesh | night | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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