Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 47
"Be wary," said the king, "there are men within the stable, let us get at them somehow."
Who acts: king, men, us · What happens: be, say, let, get · To what, where: us · 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, men, us), 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 | _ | 3 wary | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wary | cop |
| 3 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wary | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wary | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | advcl |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 stable | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stable | det |
| 16 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obl |
| 23 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | wary 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 | does in a quote | present | men | there | within the stable | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | at gillies = gillie; somehow property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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