Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 12
"Oh, never mind," says St. Kavin.
Who acts: St. · What happens: not mind, say · 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 (St.), 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 | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | Kavin | Kavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 St. | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | St. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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