Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 104
"Well, O'Donnell," said the lank grey beggarman, "strange are the tricks I've shown thee, but I'll show thee a stranger one yet for the same money."
Who acts: O'Donnell · What happens: say, be, show · To what, where: lank grey beggarman, strange tricks, thee, stranger · 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 O'Donnell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 O'Donnell | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beggarman | det |
| 9 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beggarman | amod |
| 10 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beggarman | amod |
| 11 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strange | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 strange | punct |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tricks | amod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tricks | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tricks | det |
| 17 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 shown | nsubj |
| 19 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 shown | aux |
| 20 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 shown | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 show | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 show | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 show | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 show | aux |
| 26 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | advcl |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 show | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stranger | det |
| 29 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 show | iobj |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 stranger | flat |
| 31 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 show | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 money | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 money | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 money | amod |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 show | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | O'Donnell | the lank grey beggarman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beggarman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the strange tricks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | present · perfect | O'Donnell | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | show in a quote | future | O'Donnell | a stranger | yet | for the same money | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient stranger=Topic |
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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