Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 156
"Now," said the lank grey beggarman, "I'll torment you no longer.
Who acts: lank grey beggarman · What happens: say, torment · To what, where: you · 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beggarman | det |
| 7 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beggarman | amod |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beggarman | amod |
| 9 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 torment | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 torment | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 torment | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 torment | aux |
| 14 | torment | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 torment | obj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 torment | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lank grey beggarman | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | torment in a quote | future | the lank grey beggarman = beggarman | you | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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