Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 52
"Wasn't that a fine haul we made at the Lord of Dunlavin's!" says one ugly-looking thief with his mouth full, "and it's little we'd get only for the honest porter! here's his purty health!"
Who acts: we, it · What happens: not be, make, say, look, be, get · To what, where: fine haul, purty health · 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 (we, it), 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 | _ | 7 haul | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 haul | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 haul | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 haul | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 haul | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 haul | amod |
| 7 | haul | haul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 haul | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Lord | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lord | det |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dunlavin | case |
| 14 | Dunlavin | Dunlavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dunlavin | case |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 haul | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 haul | punct |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thief | nummod |
| 20 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looking | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ugly | punct |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 thief | amod |
| 23 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | nsubj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thief | nmod |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 says | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 little | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 little | nsubj |
| 32 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 little | cop |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 full | conj |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 get | nsubj |
| 35 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 get | aux |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 little | ccomp |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 porter | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 porter | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 porter | det |
| 40 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 porter | amod |
| 41 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 43 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 health | advmod |
| 44 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 health | cop |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 health | nmod:poss |
| 46 | purty | purty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 health | amod |
| 47 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | ccomp |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 health | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 health | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | past | a fine haul | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | we | a fine haul not said here | at Dunlavin's Lord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haul=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | it | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | would | we | for the honest porter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for porter=Source | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | haul's purty health | here | tree rules |
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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