Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 4
"Is it a story you want?" said my grandfather as bold as may be, for he was just tired of being frightened. "
Who acts: story, you, grandfather, man · What happens: be, want, say, frighten · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! 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 (story, you, grandfather, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 bold | case |
| 14 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 tired | mark |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tired | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 tired | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 tired | advmod |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 frightened | mark |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 frightened | aux:pass |
| 26 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tired | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | story | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | you | a story not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | my grandfather | as bold | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | may | man | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | frighten | gerund · passive | man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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