Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 45
"Bother you, Black Cock!" says the ass: "you disturbed me from as nice a wisp of hay as ever I tasted.
Who acts: ass, you · What happens: bother, say, disturb, taste · To what, where: you, ass, nice wisp · 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 (ass, you), 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 Bother | punct |
| 2 | Bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Bother | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cock | punct |
| 5 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Cock | amod |
| 6 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bother | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bother | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bother | 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 | _ | 15 disturbed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 disturbed | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 disturbed | nsubj |
| 15 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 disturbed | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 wisp | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 nice | case |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wisp | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wisp | det |
| 21 | wisp | wisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disturbed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hay | case |
| 23 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wisp | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 tasted | mark |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 tasted | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 tasted | nsubj |
| 27 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disturbed | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bother in a quote | infinitive | you | Black Cock obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | disturb in a quote | past | you | the ass = ass | a nice wisp of hay | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | taste in a quote | past | the ass = ass | ever | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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