Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 28
"Will you give a body a taste of your beer?" said Tom.
Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: give, say, taste · To what, where: taste, body, beer · 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 taste | det |
| 8 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beer | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taste | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | a taste of your beer | a body | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient taste=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | taste in a quote | your beer | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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