Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 75
Pay them now their reward,' said the great fox-coloured cat. '
Who acts: you, children · What happens: pay, say, reward · To what, where: children, great coloured cat · 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 (you, children), 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 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pay | obj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 reward | advmod |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 reward | nmod:poss |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pay | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cat | amod |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coloured | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fox | punct |
| 13 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cat | amod |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | children = child | children's reward obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the great coloured cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reward | children = child | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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