Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 13
"Well, may be you'd be civil enough to tell _us_ what you've got in the pitcher there?" said Tom.
Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: be, tell, get, say · To what, where: pitcher · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 9 civil | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 civil | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 civil | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 civil | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 civil | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 civil | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 civil | cop |
| 9 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | ccomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 civil | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 civil | advcl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 civil | punct |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 civil | nsubj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 civil | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 got | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 civil | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pitcher | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pitcher | det |
| 22 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 got | advmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 civil | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 civil | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | you | civil, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | the pitcher; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | 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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