Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 5
Well if you can tell me the rights of this one, I'll be thankful."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: rights, me · 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 (you, I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rights | det |
| 8 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rights | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thankful | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thankful | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 thankful | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thankful | cop |
| 16 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tell | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | the rights of this one | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient right=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | future | I | thankful property | tree rules |
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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