Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 164
"I'm not as beggarly or as old as ye think.
Who acts: story teller, ye · What happens: not be, be, think
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 (story teller, ye), 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 | _ | 6 beggarly | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beggarly | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beggarly | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 beggarly | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 beggarly | advmod |
| 6 | beggarly | beggarly | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 old | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 old | advmod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beggarly | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 old | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beggarly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | the story teller = teller | beggarly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | the story teller = teller not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | ye | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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