Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 60
"Now," said he to the story-teller, "what kind of animal would you rather be, a deer, a fox, or a hare?
Who acts: man, kind · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hare, story teller, deer · 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 (man, kind), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 teller | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teller | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teller | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
| 11 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 14 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deer | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animal | case |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 deer | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 deer | nsubj |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 24 deer | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 deer | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deer | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 deer | det |
| 24 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fox | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fox | det |
| 27 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deer | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hare | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 hare | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hare | det |
| 31 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | man | a hare | the story teller | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to teller=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | would | what kind of animal | a deer and a fox | 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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