Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 15
"Some of your best whisky," says he to the landlord.
Who acts: best whisky · What happens: say · To what, where: Donald, landlord · 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 (best whisky), 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 | _ | 6 whisky | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 whisky | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 whisky | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 whisky | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 whisky | amod |
| 6 | whisky | whisky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 whisky | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whisky | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 landlord | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 landlord | det |
| 13 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | your best whisky | Donald | the landlord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to landlord=Recipient |
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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