Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 30
"Divil a fairer," says the saint; "that's the way to do business.
Who acts: Divil, that · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: saint, way, business · 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 (Divil, that), 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 | _ | 2 Divil | punct |
| 2 | Divil | Divil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fairer | det |
| 4 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Divil | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Divil | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Divil | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saint | det |
| 9 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Divil | the saint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Divil not said here | business | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
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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