Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 13

You see it was Saint Kavin, sure enough--the saint himself in disguise, and nobody else. "

Who acts: You, course · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Saint

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 (You, course), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Saint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Saint	cop
5	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Saint	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Saint	conj
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 sure	advmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 saint	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saint	det
12	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Saint	appos
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 saint	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 disguise	case
15	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saint	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nobody	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nobody	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 see	parataxis
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 nobody	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 nobody	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 nobody	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	course	Saint		tree rules
3	be		course not said here		enough 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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