Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 135
"Faith, they may well say, the richer you get, the harder the heart.
Who acts: Faith, you · What happens: say, get · 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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 2 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 richer | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 richer | det |
| 10 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 say | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 richer | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 harder | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harder | det |
| 15 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 richer | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 harder | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | may | Faith | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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