Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 61
"Well, to be sure!" says he, "King of Dublin, you are in luck.
Who acts: sure, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Tom, luck · 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 (sure, you), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dublin | case |
| 15 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 luck | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 luck | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 luck | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 luck | case |
| 20 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 King | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | sure | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | luck | 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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