Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 50

We will go to the priest's house, then," said he; "he is under an obligation to me, and will do anything I ask him."

Who acts: We, Glory, I · What happens: go, say, be, do, ask · To what, where: house, me, obligation, anything, Glory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Glory, I), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 priest	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 obligation	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 obligation	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obligation	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 obligation	cop
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 obligation	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 obligation	det
21	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 obligation	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 do	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ask	nsubj
30	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 anything	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ask	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	future	We			the priest's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Glory				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Glory		me	a obligation		tree rules
4	do	future	We not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	present	I		Glory			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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