Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 79
"Save you, O'Donnell," said the lank grey beggarman.
Who acts: lank grey beggarman · What happens: save, say · To what, where: you · 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 (lank grey beggarman), 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 | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 2 | Save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Save | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 O'Donnell | punct |
| 5 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Save | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beggarman | det |
| 10 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beggarman | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beggarman | amod |
| 12 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | infinitive | you | O'Donnell vocative | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lank grey beggarman | 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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