Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 155
"Yes, indeed, Conall, you are wordy and wise," said the king. "
Who acts: you, Conall · What happens: be, say · To what, where: king · 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 (you, Conall), 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 | _ | 6 Conall | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 Conall | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 Conall | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wordy | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wordy | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wordy | cop |
| 10 | wordy | wordy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Conall | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wise | cc |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wordy | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Conall | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Conall | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | wordy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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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