Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 95
"Six more pieces, O'Donnell, and I'll do another trick for thee," said the lank grey beggarman.
Who acts: lank grey beggarman · What happens: do, say · To what, where: 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 (lank grey beggarman), 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 pieces | punct |
| 2 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pieces | amod |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 O'Donnell | punct |
| 6 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pieces | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trick | det |
| 13 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pieces | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pieces | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beggarman | det |
| 20 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beggarman | amod |
| 21 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beggarman | amod |
| 22 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the lank grey beggarman = beggarman | another trick | for thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lank grey beggarman | 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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