Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 85
"I am a juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces of silver you shall see a trick of mine."
Who acts: juggler, you · What happens: be, say, see, trick · To what, where: juggler, lank grey beggarman, trick, mine · 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 (juggler, you), 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 juggler | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 juggler | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 juggler | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 juggler | det |
| 5 | juggler | juggler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 juggler | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 juggler | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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 | _ | 12 beggarman | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 beggarman | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pieces | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pieces | nummod |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beggarman | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 silver | case |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pieces | nmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trick | det |
| 25 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mine | case |
| 27 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 trick | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a juggler = juggler | a juggler | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a juggler | the lank grey beggarman and five pieces of silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | shall | you | a trick of mine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | trick in a quote | mine | nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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