Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 35
The king sent a message for his gillies again, and said for certain there was something troubling the brown horse. "
Who acts: king · What happens: send, say, be, trouble · To what, where: message, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 gillies | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gillies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 message | nmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 certain | case |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | xcomp |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | cop |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 was | nsubj |
| 18 | troubling | trouble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 something | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 troubling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | a message | again | for king's gillies | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the king not said here | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trouble | gerund | the brown horse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer |
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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