Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 170
And she said to me, 'What brought you here?'
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: me, you · 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 (woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | you | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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