Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 71
"Why, then, no," she replied; "and if ever a man left his house in a fury, he did.
Who acts: Mrs., man, husband · What happens: reply, leave, do · To what, where: house, fury · 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 (Mrs., man, husband), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 replied | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 man | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 did | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fury | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fury | det |
| 23 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Mrs. | then | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | a man | husband's house | a fury | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in fury=Location | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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