Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 9
Oh, won't I be glad to see the skin coming off the old villain's back!" said he.
Who acts: I, skin, eldest · What happens: not be, see, come off, say · To what, where: skin, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, skin, eldest), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 glad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 glad | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 glad | cop |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 glad | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 skin | acl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 villain | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 villain | amod |
| 16 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 villain | case |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | the skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come off | gerund | the skin not said here | the old villain's back | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | eldest = eld | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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