Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 14
Oh, never mind," says he, "I know more than that.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not mind, say, know · To what, where: Saint, more · 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 (you, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 mind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 more | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Saint | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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