Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 10

The little man raised up his head, and "Thank you kindly," said he.

Who acts: little man · What happens: raise up, thank, say · To what, where: head, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 raised	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Thank	cc
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
11	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 man	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 Thank	obj
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	11 Thank	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Thank	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	raise up	participle	the little man not said here	man's head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the little man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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