Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 137

When I was out and had shaken the skin off me, I said to the brute, 'I am out now in spite of you.'

Who acts: I · What happens: be, shake, say, spite · To what, where: skin, brute, spite, you · 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 (I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 out	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 out	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 out	cop
4	out	out	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shaken	cc
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shaken	aux
7	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 out	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaken	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shaken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 out	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 brute	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brute	det
17	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 out	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 out	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 out	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 out	cop
22	out	out	ADV	_	25 spite	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 out	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 spite	case
25	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 spite	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 spite	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 spite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					out property	tree rules
2	shake	past · perfect	I not said here	the skin				off me	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent skin=Theme off i=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	I		the brute	spite of you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brute=Recipient
4	is	present	I				now	out property	tree rules
5	spite			you					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/137/