Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 40
"That is marvellous for me," said the king: "go you to lie down again, and if I notice it again I will go out myself."
Who acts: That, king · What happens: be, say, go, lie down, notice, go out · To what, where: you, thing, king · 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 (That, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 marvellous | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 marvellous | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 marvellous | cop |
| 4 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 marvellous | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 marvellous | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 marvellous | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lie | mark |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 lie | compound:prt |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 lie | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 notice | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 notice | nsubj |
| 24 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 notice | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 notice | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 go | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | for the king = king; marvellous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie down in a quote | to-infinitive | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | notice a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the king = king | thing | again | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | go out in a quote | future | the king = king | the king = king | out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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