Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 15
Said the old man to his sons, "Stop ye, and we will seek out the house of the king's miller."
Who acts: old man, we · What happens: say, stop, seek out · To what, where: sons, ye, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, we), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 10 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 Stop | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seek | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seek | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seek | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 seek | aux |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Stop | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 seek | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 miller | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 miller | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | man's sons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | ye | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ye=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | seek out in a quote | future | we | the house of the king's miller | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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