Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 115
"By my faith, and you shall though," said Hudden, and he laid his stick across the sack.
Who acts: faith · What happens: say, lay · To what, where: stick, sack · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (faith), 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 | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 faith | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 faith | nmod:poss |
| 4 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shall | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shall | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 shall | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 faith | conj |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 shall | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | nsubj |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stick | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obj |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 sack | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sack | det |
| 22 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my faith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | faith | faith's stick | the sack | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Result |
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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