Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 67
"I was obliged to drop a fine pig's foot," says another.
What happens: oblige, drop, say · To what, where: I, foot, another · 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: 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 | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 says | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drop | mark |
| 6 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pig | amod |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 pig | case |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 says | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige in a quote | past · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | drop in a quote | to-infinitive | a fine pig's foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | another | 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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