Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 65

"Honesty's the best policy!" quoth Ivan, as he skipped about in his new quarters. "

Who acts: Honesty, best policy, Ivan · What happens: be, quoth, skip · To what, where: best policy, Ivan

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 (Honesty, best policy, Ivan), 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	_	6 policy	punct
2	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 policy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 policy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 policy	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 policy	amod
6	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quoth	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 policy	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 policy	punct
9	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 quoth	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skipped	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 skipped	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 skipped	nsubj
14	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 quoth	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	19 quarters	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 quarters	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 quarters	nmod:poss
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 quarters	amod
19	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 skipped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 quoth	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Honesty	the best policy		tree rules
2	quoth	infinitive	the best policy	Ivan		tree rules
3	skip	past	Ivan		about Ivan's new quarters	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about quarter=Trajectory

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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