Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 113
"Ah, you're a poor creature!" said Fin. "
Who acts: you, poor creature · What happens: be, say · To what, where: poor creature · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, poor creature), 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 | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 creature | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 creature | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 creature | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a poor creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | a poor creature | 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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