Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 68
"I am," said she; "and I have no reason, I hope, to be ashamed of my husband."
Who acts: I · What happens: say, have, hope, be · To what, where: reason · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 reason | det |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hope | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hope | nsubj |
| 17 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ashamed | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ashamed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ashamed | cop |
| 21 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hope | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 husband | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ashamed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ashamed | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | I | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | of my husband; 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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