Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 201
"Well then," said he, "'twas I."
What happens: say · 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: 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 he | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 I. | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 twas | punct |
| 11 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 I. | compound |
| 12 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 he | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 I. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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