Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 130
"'I am not,' said I, 'but the ropes are so tight that I take long to loose them.'
Who acts: leech, ropes · What happens: say, be, take, lose · To what, where: ropes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leech, ropes), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 am | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 am | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 am | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 am | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tight | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ropes | det |
| 14 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tight | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tight | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 tight | advmod |
| 17 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tight | advcl |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 take | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 loose | mark |
| 23 | loose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 take | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loose | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tight | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | leech | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the ropes | tight property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | leech | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | leech not said here | ropes = rope | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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