Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 4
Ach!" said the old man, "I have not much to spare." "
Who acts: Ach · What happens: say, spare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ach), 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 | Ach | Ach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ach | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ach | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 much | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 much | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spare | mark |
| 15 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 much | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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