Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 115

"It's little I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "that a hound and a lad should be killed at my court."

Who acts: head, O'Donnell · What happens: be, anger, say, kill · To what, where: O'Donnell, that, court · 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 (head, 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 pleased	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleased	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	cop
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pleased	amod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pleased	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	cop
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sore	cc
10	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pleased	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 angered	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 angered	aux:pass
13	angered	anger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sore	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleased	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pleased	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 O'Donnell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 O'Donnell	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 killed	nsubj:pass
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hound	det
22	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lad	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lad	det
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hound	conj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 killed	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 killed	aux:pass
28	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 court	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 court	nmod:poss
31	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	head			pleased property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		head not said here				tree rules
3	anger in a quote	present · passive		O'Donnell			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	O'Donnell				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	kill in a quote	should · passive		that	my court		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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