Celtic Fairy Tales, XII. King O'toole and His Goose., sentence 3
Yet it is told with such humour and vigour, that the moral glides insensibly into the heart.
Who acts: moral · What happens: tell, glide · To what, where: word, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moral), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 humour | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 humour | amod |
| 7 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 vigour | cc |
| 9 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 humour | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glides | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 glides | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moral | det |
| 13 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glides | nsubj |
| 14 | glides | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 15 | insensibly | insensibly | ADV | _ | 14 glides | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heart | det |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glides | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | word | with such humour and vigour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | glide | present | the moral | the heart | insensibly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination |
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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