Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 23
"Of heath!" said Tom, bursting out laughing; "sure you don't think me to be such a fool as to believe that?"
Who acts: Of heath, you · What happens: say, burst out, laugh, not think, be, believe · To what, where: Of heath, fool, that · 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 (Of heath, you), 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 | _ | 3 heath | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heath | amod |
| 3 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heath | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heath | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bursting | punct |
| 9 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bursting | compound:prt |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bursting | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 think | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 think | advmod |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fool | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fool | cop |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 fool | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fool | det |
| 24 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 think | ccomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 believe | mark |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 believe | mark |
| 27 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fool | advcl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 believe | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Of heath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | burst out | gerund | Of heath not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | Of heath not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | Of heath = heath | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | such fool | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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