Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 9
"I have no mind to eat anything," replied the story-teller; "long as I have been in the service of the king of Leinster, I never sat down to breakfast without having a new story ready for the evening, but this morning my mind is quite shut up, and I don't know what to do.
Who acts: story teller, my · What happens: have, eat, reply, be, not sit down, shut up · To what, where: mind, anything, service, new story, morning · 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, my), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 mind | det |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | acl |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teller | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 teller | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 story | punct |
| 15 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 replied | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 service | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 service | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 service | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 service | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 service | det |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 service | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Leinster | case |
| 30 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 king | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sat | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 sat | nsubj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 sat | advmod |
| 34 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 sat | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 breakfast | case |
| 37 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sat | obl |
| 38 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 39 having | mark |
| 39 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 sat | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 story | det |
| 41 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 story | amod |
| 42 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 having | obj |
| 43 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 having | xcomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 evening | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 evening | det |
| 46 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ready | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 shut | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 shut | cc |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 morning | det |
| 50 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 mind | nmod:poss |
| 52 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 shut | aux:pass |
| 54 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 55 shut | advmod |
| 55 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | conj |
| 56 | up | up | ADP | _ | 55 shut | compound:prt |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 know | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 know | cc |
| 59 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 62 know | nsubj |
| 60 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 know | aux |
| 61 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 know | advmod |
| 62 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 63 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 65 do | obj |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 do | mark |
| 65 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 know | ccomp |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the story teller = teller | no mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the story teller = teller not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the story teller | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the story teller = teller | the service | of the king of Leinster | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not sit down in a quote | past | the story teller = teller | to breakfast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | gerund | the story teller = teller not said here | a new story | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||
| 7 | shut up in a quote | present · passive | this morning | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the story teller = teller | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 10 | mind in a quote | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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