Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 76
It's mighty smart you thought yourself, deluding us with your lying tales."
Who acts: It, you, your · What happens: be, think, delude, tell · To what, where: yourself, us · 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 (It, you, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smart | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smart | cop |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smart | amod |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smart | ccomp |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deluding | punct |
| 9 | deluding | delude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 smart | advcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 deluding | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tales | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tales | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deluding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smart | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | you | yourself | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | delude | gerund | us | with your lying tales | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell | your | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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