Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 33
"Oh, you anointed villain!" says the ass, roaring like thunder.
Who acts: you, ass · What happens: anoint, say, roar · To what, where: villain · 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, ass), 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 | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 anointed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 anointed | nsubj |
| 5 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anointed | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ass | det |
| 11 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roaring | punct |
| 13 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 says | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 thunder | case |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roaring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint in a quote | past | you | villain | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roar | gerund | the ass not said here | like thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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