Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 30

It must be my brown horse," said he to his gillies; "find out what is wrong with him."

Who acts: noise, king · What happens: be, say, find out · To what, where: brown horse · 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 (noise, king), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horse	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 horse	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 horse	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horse	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 horse	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 gillies	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gillies	nmod:poss
13	gillies	gillie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 find	compound:prt
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 wrong	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wrong	cop
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 find	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wrong	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	must	noise	my brown horse		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	king		to king's gillies	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gillie=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	find out	infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			with king; wrong property	tree rules

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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