Celtic Fairy Tales, XII. King O'toole and His Goose., sentence 2
_Remarks_.--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.
Who acts: This, benefits, your · What happens: be, keep, word · To what, where: moral apologue, benefits, word
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. King O'toole and His Goose.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, benefits, your), 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 | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 apologue | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 apologue | punct |
| 5 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 apologue | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 apologue | cop |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 apologue | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 apologue | det |
| 9 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apologue | amod |
| 10 | apologue | apologue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Remarks | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 benefits | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 benefits | det |
| 13 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 apologue | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 keeping | mark |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 benefits | acl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 word | nmod:poss |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a moral apologue | the benefits | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the benefits not said here | your word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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