Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 92

"Take him at his word, O'Donnell."

Who acts: you, money · What happens: take, word · To what, where: money, word

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 (you, 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 O'Donnell	punct
8	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	money		money's word			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset
2	word in a quote		money						nom word «communication 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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