Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 14
"That I will, with pleasure," said he; "it's good beer."
Who acts: Tom, pitcher · What happens: say, be · To what, where: good beer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, pitcher), 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 | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pleasure | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pleasure | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasure | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pleasure | case |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasure | parataxis |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 beer | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 beer | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beer | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beer | cop |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beer | amod |
| 17 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasure | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | pitcher | good beer | 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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