Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 55

"By Jabers, I thought I was only talking to a dacent boy," says the king.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: think, talk, 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 (I, 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	_	6 thought	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 Jabers	case
3	Jabers	Jaber	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 thought	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Jabers	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 says	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 talking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 talking	advmod
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 boy	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	dacent	dacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	I	by Jabers	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	talk in a quote	past · progressive	I	to a dacent boy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the king		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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