Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 102
"And how did you know there were six, you poor innocent?" said the lord.
Who acts: you, six, lord · What happens: know, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, six, lord), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 were | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innocent | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 innocent | nsubj |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 innocent | amod |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | six | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the lord | 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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