Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 51
"Is that the way you're leaving me?" said the story-teller.
Who acts: you, story teller · What happens: be, leave, say · To what, where: way, 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 (you, story teller), 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 | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 way | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 leaving | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaving | aux |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leaving | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 teller | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teller | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 16 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | present · progressive | you | the story teller = teller | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the story teller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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