Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 34
"Honour bright!" says King O'Toole, holding out his fist.
Who acts: King · What happens: honour, say, hold out · To what, where: fist · 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 (King), 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 Honour | punct |
| 2 | Honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Honour | xcomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honour | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honour | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 8 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 says | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 holding | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fist | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour in a quote | infinitive | bright property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold out | gerund | King not said here | king's fist | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=Theme |
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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