Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 166
This morning my magic told me the difficulty you were in, and I made up my mind to get you out of it.
Who acts: magic, you, I, my · What happens: tell, be, make up, get, mind · To what, where: difficulty, me, mind, you, magic · 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 (magic, you, I, my), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 magic | nmod:poss |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 difficulty | det |
| 8 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 in | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 in | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 difficulty | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 made | compound:prt |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | my magic | the difficulty | me | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient difficulty=Topic | ||
| 2 | is | past | you | the difficulty not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make up | past | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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