Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 178
Hast thou boiled that youngster for me?' he cried. '
Who acts: thou, man · What happens: have, boil, cry · To what, where: youngster
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 (thou, man), 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 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 boiled | nsubj |
| 3 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hast | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 youngster | det |
| 5 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiled | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 boiled | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hast | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hast | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hast | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hast | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | boil | past | thou | that youngster | for me | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent youngster=Patient for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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