Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 10
"No, I'll not," said the master; "I'll explain my advice."
Who acts: master · What happens: say, explain · To what, where: advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 'll | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 'll | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 'll | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 'll | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 'll | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 explain | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 explain | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 explain | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 explain | aux |
| 16 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 advice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 explain | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 explain | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert in a quote | future | the master = master | my advice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Topic |
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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