Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 16

"Why," said Fin, "ever since I was the height of a round tower, I was known to be fond of having a good prospect of my own; and where the dickens, neighbours, could I find a better spot for a good prospect than the top of Knockmany?

Who acts: Fin, dickens · What happens: say, be, know, have, find · To what, where: Fin, good prospect, better spot · 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 (Fin, dickens), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 height	punct
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 height	advmod
10	since	since	ADP	_	14 height	case
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 height	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 height	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 height	det
14	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 tower	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tower	det
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tower	amod
18	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 height	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 known	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 known	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 known	aux:pass
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 height	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	25 fond	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 fond	cop
25	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 known	xcomp
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 having	mark
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fond	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 prospect	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 prospect	amod
30	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 having	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 own	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 own	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 prospect	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 find	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 find	cc
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 find	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dickens	det
38	dickens	dickens	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 find	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 neighbours	punct
40	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 dickens	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dickens	punct
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 find	aux
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 find	nsubj
44	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 height	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 spot	det
46	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 spot	amod
47	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 find	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	51 prospect	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 prospect	det
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 prospect	amod
51	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spot	nmod
52	than	than	ADP	_	54 top	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 top	det
54	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 prospect	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 Knockmany	case
56	Knockmany	Knockmany	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 top	nmod
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Fin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	Fin		since the height; ever	of a round tower	tree rules
3	know in a quote	past · passive		Fin			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive				fond property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	gerund		a good prospect of my own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prospect=Patient
6	find in a quote	could	the dickens and neighbours	a better spot		for a good prospect than the top of Knockmany	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent spot=Theme for prospect=Beneficiary

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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