Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 17
"Oh, then, 'tis little matter who I am.
Who acts: good man · What happens: be
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 | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 matter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 matter | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 7 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 9 matter | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 matter | amod |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 matter | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 who | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 who | cop |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | 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 = man | 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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