Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 68

"It might be sport to others," replied the story-teller looking at his wife, "for my part I could well put up with the loss of it."

Who acts: sport, story teller · What happens: be, reply, look, put up · To what, where: sport, part · 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 (sport, 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 sport	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sport	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sport	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sport	cop
5	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sport	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sport	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sport	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 teller	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teller	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
14	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 teller	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 part	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 part	nmod:poss
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 part	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 put	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 loss	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loss	det
31	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 loss	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	might	sport	sport	to others	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the story teller			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	the story teller not said here		at teller's wife; for my part	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Location for part=Theme
4	put up in a quote	could	the story teller = teller	my part not said here	with the loss of sport; well property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent part=Goal

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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