Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 17
"Oh, no matter; I was given to understand it," says Saint Kavin.
Who acts: Saint · What happens: give, understand, say · To what, where: Saint, matter · 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 (Saint), 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 | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 given | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | appos |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 says | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 understand | mark |
| 11 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understand | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 17 | Kavin | Kavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Saint | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past · passive | Saint | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | understand in a quote | to-infinitive | matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Saint | 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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