Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 87
"The middle one," said he, "I'll blow away; the other two I'll leave."
Who acts: beggarman, other two · What happens: say, blow away, leave · 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 (beggarman, other two), 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 | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blow | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 blow | aux |
| 13 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 blow | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 two | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 two | amod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | beggarman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blow away in a quote | future | beggarman | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | future | the other two | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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