Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 67
"And how did you like the sport?" said the beggar.
Who acts: you, beggar · What happens: like, say · To what, where: sport · 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, beggar), 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 | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 like | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sport | det |
| 8 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beggar | det |
| 13 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | past · do-support | you | the sport | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sport=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the beggar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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