Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 56
"I'm much obliged to you, gentlemen," said Andrew Coffey, "but indeed I know nothing about the business."
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: oblige, say, know · To what, where: you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andrew), 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 | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 obliged | advmod |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 obliged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gentlemen | punct |
| 9 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 you | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Andrew | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 know | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 business | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 business | det |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige in a quote | present · passive | Andrew | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Andrew | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Andrew | nothing | about the business; indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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