Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 71
"I'm not my own master to go or stay," said the story-teller, with a sigh.
Who acts: story teller · What happens: not be, go, stay, say · To what, where: own master · 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 (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 | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 master | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 master | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 master | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 master | amod |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 master | acl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 stay | cc |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teller | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teller | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 story | punct |
| 18 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sigh | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sigh | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sigh | det |
| 22 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teller | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | the story teller = teller | my own master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the story teller not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | the story teller not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | 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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