Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 11
I am King O'Toole," says he, "prince and plennypennytinchery of these parts," says he; "but how came ye to know that?" says he.
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: be, say, come, know · To what, where: King, that · 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, ye), 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 | 3 King | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 King | cop |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 4 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plennypennytinchery | cc |
| 13 | plennypennytinchery | plennypennytinchery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prince | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 parts | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 parts | det |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plennypennytinchery | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 says | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 came | advmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 says | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 came | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 know | mark |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 know | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 says | punct |
| 32 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 says | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | king | prince and plennypennytinchery of this parts obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | past | ye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | ye not said here | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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