Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 20
"Devil a one of me knows," said Tom; "but of malt, I suppose, what else?"
Who acts: Tom · What happens: know, say, suppose · 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), 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 Devil | punct |
| 2 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | parataxis |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 suppose | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 suppose | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 malt | case |
| 16 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suppose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 malt | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 suppose | nsubj |
| 19 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 suppose | parataxis |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 what | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | present | Tom | of malt | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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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