Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 1
Och, I thought all the world, far and near, had heerd o' King O'Toole--well, well, but the darkness of mankind is untellible!
Who acts: I, darkness · What happens: think, have, be · To what, where: world, heerd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, darkness), 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 | Och | och | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Och | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 world | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 far | punct |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 near | cc |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 far | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | heerd | heerd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 O'Toole | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 O'Toole | punct |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 O'Toole | compound |
| 18 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 20 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 had | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 22 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 20 well | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 untellible | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 untellible | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 darkness | det |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 untellible | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mankind | case |
| 28 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 darkness | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 untellible | cop |
| 30 | untellible | untellible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | all world | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent world=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | heerd | of King O'Toole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heerd=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the darkness of mankind | untellible property | tree rules |
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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