Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 108
Ah! it's a deal I'm giving up for you, sure as it is that I don't care for the princess."
Who acts: palace, I, deal · What happens: be, give up, not be · To what, where: deal
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, I, deal), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 deal | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 care | nsubj:outer |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 deal | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 giving | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 giving | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 care | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 care | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 care | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 care | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 care | advmod |
| 22 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 princess | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 care | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 care | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | palace | a deal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give up | present · progressive | I | a deal not said here | for you | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Source | |||
| 3 | not is | present · do-support | a deal | for the princess; care property | 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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