Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 60
"I will tell a case as hard in which I was," said Conall. "
Who acts: I, Conall · What happens: tell, be, say · To what, where: case · 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, 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 hard | advmod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 was | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | I | a case | hard property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent case=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Conall | 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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