Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 190
I count it no loss what I spent in the schooling and teaching of you.
Who acts: I · What happens: count, spend, teach · To what, where: more, loss, schooling, you
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 count | nsubj |
| 2 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 count | obj |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 loss | det |
| 5 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 count | obj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 spent | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spent | nsubj |
| 8 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loss | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 schooling | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 schooling | det |
| 11 | schooling | schooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 teaching | cc |
| 13 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 schooling | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 teaching | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | I | more | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | I | no loss | the schooling and teaching of you | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset | |||
| 3 | teach | you | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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