Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 11
In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of _Waverley_ may remember "'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil" (_cf.
Who acts: Conan, devil · What happens: harry, remember, take, say · To what, where: hell, Finn Saga, Claw, shortest nails, Devil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. 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 (Conan, devil), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Saga | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Saga | det |
| 3 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Saga | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Finn | punct |
| 5 | Saga | Saga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 harries | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Saga | punct |
| 7 | Conan | Conan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 harries | nsubj |
| 8 | harries | harry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harries | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 readers | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 readers | case |
| 12 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 harries | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Waverley | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 of | punct |
| 15 | Waverley | Waverley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 readers | nmod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | aux |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 harries | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Claw | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Claw | punct |
| 21 | Claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 claw | case |
| 23 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 26 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | nsubj |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 harries | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nails | det |
| 29 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 nails | amod |
| 30 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 said | mark |
| 34 | Conan | Conan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 take | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Devil | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Devil | det |
| 38 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 said | obl |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Devil | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 cf | punct |
| 41 | _ | _ | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cf | det |
| 42 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Devil | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 harries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harry | present | Conan | hell | the Finn Saga | as readers of Waverley | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hell=Patient | ||
| 2 | remember | may | Conan not said here | Claw | for claw | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | devil | the shortest nails | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Conan | the Devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to devil=Recipient |
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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