Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 110
"Thunder an' ounds!" exclaimed the other, "what a voice in so small a chap!"
Who acts: Thunder · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: other
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder), 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 Thunder | punct |
| 2 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ounds | det |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ounds | punct |
| 5 | ounds | ound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Thunder | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thunder | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thunder | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 small | case |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 what | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chap | det |
| 20 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 small | nsubj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 small | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Thunder and a ounds | the other | tree rules |
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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