Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 25
When they rose to lay hand on the brown horse, said Conall, "You shall not do that.
Who acts: servants, Conall, You · What happens: rise, lay, say, not do · To what, where: hand, that · 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 (servants, Conall, You), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | servants = servant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | servants = servant not said here | hand | on the brown horse | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | shall | You | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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