Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 124
"With all pleasure in life," said she; "only, as they're far back in his head, you must put your finger a good way in."
Who acts: kind, Fin, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: finger, head · 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 (kind, Fin, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 pleasure | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pleasure | det |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleasure | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 put | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 only | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 back | nsubj |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 back | cop |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 back | advmod |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 put | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 head | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 finger | nmod:poss |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 way | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | kind | with all pleasure in life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Fin | back, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | must | you | your finger | Cucullin's head | a good way obl:unmarked | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in head=Destination |
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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