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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

punctdiscoursepunctnsubjpunctpunctdetamodamodobjpunctpunctamodcopdetobjnsubjauxacl:relclobjpunctccnsubjauxadvcliobjdetiobjflatadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTO'DonnellPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETlankADJgreyADJbeggarmanNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTstrangeADJareAUXtheDETtricksNOUNIPRON'veAUXshownVERBtheePRON,PUNCTbutCCONJIPRON'llAUXshowVERBtheePRONaDETstrangerNOUNoneNUMyetADVforADPtheDETsameADJmoneyNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_7 saidpunct
2WellwellINTJ_7 saiddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
4O'DonnellO'DonnellPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidnsubj
5,,PUNCT_4 O'Donnellpunct
6""PUNCT_4 O'Donnellpunct
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 beggarmandet
9lanklankADJDegree=Pos11 beggarmanamod
10greygreyADJDegree=Pos11 beggarmanamod
11beggarmanbeggarmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 saidobj
12,,PUNCT_14 strangepunct
13""PUNCT_14 strangepunct
14strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos17 tricksamod
15arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 trickscop
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 tricksdet
17trickstrickNOUNNumber=Plur7 saidobj
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 shownnsubj
19'vehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 shownaux
20shownshowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part17 tricksacl:relcl
21theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch20 shownobj
22,,PUNCT_26 showpunct
23butbutCCONJ_26 showcc
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 shownsubj
25'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin26 showaux
26showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf7 saidadvcl
27theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch26 showiobj
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 strangerdet
29strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing26 showiobj
30oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 strangerflat
31yetyetADV_26 showadvmod
32forforADP_35 moneycase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 moneydet
34samesameADJDegree=Pos35 moneyamod
35moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing26 showobl
36..PUNCT_7 saidpunct
37""PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastO'Donnellthe lank grey beggarmanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beggarman=Topic
2is a in a quotepresentthe strange trickstree rules
3show in a quotepresent · perfectO'Donnelltheevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
4show in a quotefutureO'Donnella strangeryetfor the same moneyvn 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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