Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 79
Go up and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw,' said the head bard.
Who acts: you · What happens: go up, sing, say · To what, where: cronan, Conall, head bard · 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), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sing | cc |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cronan | det |
| 6 | cronan | cronan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Conall | case |
| 8 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cronan | nmod |
| 9 | Yellowclaw | Yellowclaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Conall | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bard | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bard | compound |
| 15 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | imperative | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | a cronan | Conall | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cronan=Topic to conall=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the head bard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bard=Topic |
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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