Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 91
"For half the money," said one of the chief's lads, "I'll do the same trick."
Who acts: money · What happens: say, do · To what, where: one, same trick · 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 (money), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 money | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 14 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trick | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trick | amod |
| 22 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | half money | one of the chief's lads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | half money = money | the same trick | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |
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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