Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 124
Faith, you've been quicker than we have."
Who acts: Faith, we · What happens: be, have
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, we), 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 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quicker | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Faith | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quicker | nsubj |
| 4 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quicker | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 quicker | cop |
| 6 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quicker | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quicker | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quicker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Faith | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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