Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 103
"Sore thou art; and sorer thou'lt be," said O'Donnell.
Who acts: O'Donnell · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sorer thou'lt · 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 (O'Donnell), 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 art | punct |
| 2 | Sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 art | amod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | nsubj |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 thou'lt | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sorer | cc |
| 7 | sorer | sore | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 thou'lt | amod |
| 8 | thou'lt | thou'lt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | obl |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 art | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | infinitive | sorer thou'lt | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | O'Donnell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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