Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 28

What better hap could I look for, fool that I am!"

Who acts: better hap · What happens: look

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 (better hap), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 look	obl
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hap	amod
3	hap	hap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 fool	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 am	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 am	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	advcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	could	better hap					for fool	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fool=Theme

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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