Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 202
"Och! och!" said she, "'twas I that was there, and the king is the child whose life you saved; and it is to you that life thanks should be given."
Who acts: och, Lochlann, king, you, life · What happens: say, be, save, give · To what, where: child, life, 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 (och, Lochlann, king, you), 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 | _ | 4 och | punct |
| 2 | Och | och | INTJ | _ | 4 och | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Och | punct |
| 4 | och | och | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 och | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 och | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 she | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 twas | punct |
| 12 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 there | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 there | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 child | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 child | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 child | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 there | obl |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 child | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 saved | nsubj |
| 27 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 life | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 given | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 given | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 you | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 you | cop |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 given | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 thanks | mark |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thanks | compound |
| 36 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 you | discourse |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 given | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 given | aux:pass |
| 39 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | och | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Lochlann | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the king | the child and the child and the child's life's life | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save in a quote | past | you | the child and the child and life's life's life not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | life | to you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | should · passive | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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