Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 48
"Be easy, Fin," replied Oonagh; "troth, I'm ashamed of you.
Who acts: Oonagh · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: troth · 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), 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 | _ | 3 easy | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fin | punct |
| 5 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 easy | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 troth | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 troth | punct |
| 12 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ashamed | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ashamed | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ashamed | cop |
| 16 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 troth | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ashamed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Oonagh | troth | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Oonagh | troth not said here | of you; ashamed property | tree rules |
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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