Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 16
"Who are you, my good man?" asked the story-teller.
Who acts: good man · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: good man, story teller · 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 (good man), 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 | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 man | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teller | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 teller | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 story | punct |
| 15 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my good man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | my good man | the story teller | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teller=Recipient |
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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