Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 37
"Well, my bully, don't be cast down," said Oonagh; "depend on me, and maybe I'll bring you better out of this scrape than ever you could bring yourself, by your rule o' thumb."
Who acts: Oonagh, you, thumb · What happens: not cast down, say, depend, bring, rule · To what, where: bully, you, yourself · 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 (Oonagh, you, thumb), 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 | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 cast | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bully | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cast | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cast | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cast | aux:pass |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cast | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 depend | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 depend | punct |
| 18 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 depend | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 23 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 depend | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 bring | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 scrape | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 scrape | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 scrape | det |
| 32 | scrape | scrape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 better | obl |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 37 bring | mark |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 bring | advmod |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | aux |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 better | advcl |
| 38 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 bring | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rule | punct |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 rule | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 rule | nmod:poss |
| 42 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | parataxis |
| 43 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 45 thumb | case |
| 44 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 45 thumb | punct |
| 45 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rule | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 depend | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cast down in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | my bully | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Oonagh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | depend in a quote | infinitive | on Oonagh | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | future | Oonagh | you | good, maybe property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 5 | bring in a quote | could | you | yourself | ever | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 6 | rule in a quote | thumb | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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