Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 80
And surely, oh king, I had no care for them or for their cronan, for I began to see that they were not good comrades.
Who acts: I, care · What happens: have, begin, see, not be · To what, where: king, good comrades
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, care), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 king | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 king | discourse |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 care | det |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 care | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 cronan | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cronan | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cronan | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cronan | cronan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 care | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 began | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 comrades | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 comrades | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 comrades | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 comrades | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 comrades | amod |
| 28 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | care | good comrades | tree rules |
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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