Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 102
"Call that a trick," said the fistless lad, "any one can do that," and so saying, he put up his hand, pulled his ear, and what happened was that he pulled away ear and head.
Who acts: trick, one · What happens: say, do, put up, pull, happen, be · To what, where: Call, that, hand, ear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, one), 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 Call | punct |
| 2 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pulled | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Call | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 10 | fistless | fistless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lad | amod |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lad | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saying | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 saying | advmod |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 put | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pulled | punct |
| 31 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 ear | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pulled | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 happened | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 happened | cc |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 pulled | cop |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 pulled | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 pulled | nsubj |
| 41 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 pulled | advmod |
| 43 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pulled | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 head | cc |
| 45 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ear | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a trick | Call | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | any one | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a trick not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put up | past | trick | trick's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | trick not said here | trick's ear | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 6 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | trick | Call obl; away, pull property | 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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