Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 94
"Thou art sore, and thou wilt be sorer," said O'Donnell.
Who acts: thou, O'Donnell · What happens: be, say · 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 (thou, O'Donnell), 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 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 art | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorer | cc |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 sorer | nsubj |
| 8 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorer | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sorer | cop |
| 10 | sorer | sore | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 art | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | thou | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | O'Donnell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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