Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 91
Blood and fury!" he shouted; "how is this?
Who acts: Blood · What happens: shout, be · To what, where: this
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 (Blood), 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 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fury | cc |
| 3 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blood | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fury | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fury | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 this | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 this | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 this | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 this | cop |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 shouted | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | Blood and fury | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | 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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