Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 57
"Now, O Conall," said the king, "were you ever in a harder place than to be seeing your lot of sons hanged tomorrow?
Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, be, see, hange · To what, where: harder place, lot, sons · 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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 Conall | case |
| 5 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Conall | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Conall | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 place | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 place | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 place | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 place | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 place | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 18 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seeing | aux |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 place | advcl |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lot | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seeing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sons | case |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lot | nmod |
| 28 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sons | acl |
| 29 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hanged | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the king | now | of Conall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | you | a harder place | ever | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | you not said here | your lot of sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hange in a quote | participle | sons not said here | tomorrow | 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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