Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 135
"More melodious to me," said the lank grey beggarman, "were the worst of these sounds than the sweetest harping of thy harpers."
Who acts: lank grey beggarman · What happens: say, be · 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 (lank grey beggarman), 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 | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 2 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 melodious | advmod |
| 3 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 melodious | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 melodious | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beggarman | det |
| 10 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beggarman | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beggarman | amod |
| 12 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worst | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 worst | det |
| 17 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 melodious | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sounds | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 sounds | det |
| 20 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 worst | obl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 harping | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 harping | det |
| 23 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 harping | amod |
| 24 | harping | harping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounds | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 harpers | case |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 harpers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | harpers | harper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 harping | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 melodious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lank grey beggarman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | of this sounds than the sweetest harping of thy harpers; bad 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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