Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 14
Then one of them called to her in Irish, and said, "Rise, woman, and make us a cake."
What happens: call, say, rise, make · To what, where: one, mistress, Irish, woman, cake, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 called | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Irish | case |
| 9 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 called | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rise | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rise | punct |
| 15 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Rise | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Rise | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cake | det |
| 23 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rise | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | one of family | mistress | Irish | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | infinitive | woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | a cake | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary cake=Product |
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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