Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 56
"Oh, halves or alls," says the king, "put away that divel of a wolf, and we'll see about it."
Who acts: king, we · What happens: say, put away, see · To what, where: divel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, we), 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 | _ | 4 halves | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 halves | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 alls | cc |
| 6 | alls | all | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 halves | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 halves | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 halves | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 divel | det |
| 17 | divel | divel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wolf | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 divel | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put away in a quote | infinitive | the king not said here | that divel of a wolf | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent divel=Goal | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | we | about half | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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