Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 21

"By makin' old things as good as new," says Saint Kavin.

Who acts: Saint · What happens: 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 (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	_	8 good	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 makin	case
3	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 good	obl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	nsubj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 new	case
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 good	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
15	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Saint	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Saint						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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