Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 5

Well, by the powers," said Tom to himself, "I often heard tell of the Lepracauns, and, to tell God's truth, I never rightly believed in them--but here's one of them in real earnest.

Who acts: Tom, I, truth · What happens: say, hear, tell, not believe, be · To what, where: Tom, tell, one, real earnest · 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, I, truth), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 powers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 powers	det
5	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 powers	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 powers	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
17	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Lepracauns	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lepracauns	det
20	Lepracauns	Lepracaun	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 tell	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
26	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 truth	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 God	case
28	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 believed	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 believed	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 believed	advmod
32	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	33 believed	advmod
33	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tell	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 believed	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 one	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 one	cc
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 one	advmod
39	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 one	cop
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	ccomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 one	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 earnest	case
44	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 earnest	amod
45	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 one	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tom		Tom		by the powers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past	I	tell of the Lepracauns			often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	God's truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not believe	participle	I				in Lepracauns = lepracaun; rightly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present		one		real earnest; here	of Lepracauns = lepracaun	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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