Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 33
"That baste, Cucullin," replied Fin; "and how to manage I don't know.
Who acts: baste · What happens: reply, manage, not know · To what, where: Fin · 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 (baste), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 baste | det |
| 3 | baste | baste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cucullin | punct |
| 5 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 baste | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 baste | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 baste | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 manage | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 manage | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 manage | mark |
| 15 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 manage | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | that baste | Fin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | manage in a quote | to-infinitive | that baste not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | that baste = baste | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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