Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 97
I thought, however, that, as you were reported to be rather a stout little fellow of your size, you might be able to manage it, and I did not wish to affront a man that thinks himself able to fight Fin.
Who acts: I, you, man · What happens: think, report, be, manage, not wish, affront · To what, where: that, you, stout little fellow, size, man, fellow · 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, you, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reported | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 reported | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reported | aux:pass |
| 11 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fellow | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fellow | cop |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 fellow | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fellow | det |
| 16 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 size | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 size | nmod:poss |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fellow | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reported | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 manage | mark |
| 28 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 manage | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wish | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wish | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 wish | advmod |
| 35 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 affront | mark |
| 37 | affront | affront | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wish | xcomp |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 affront | obj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 thinks | nsubj |
| 41 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 man | acl:relcl |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 thinks | obj |
| 43 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thinks | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 fight | mark |
| 45 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 able | xcomp |
| 46 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 fight | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | that | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | report | past · passive | you | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a stout little fellow | of your size | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | might | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | manage | to-infinitive | you not said here | size | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not wish | past · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | affront not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other | present | a man | fellow | able property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | |||
| 9 | fight | to-infinitive | a man not said here | Fin | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Co-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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