Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 88
But,' said the one-eyed fox-coloured cat that was commander-in-chief over them, 'you saw him not with your two eyes, and though I have but one eye, there's the rascal up in the tree.'
Who acts: one eyed coloured cat, you, I, rascal · What happens: say, be, not see, have, be up · To what, where: one eyed coloured cat, chief, cat, one eye, tree · 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 (one eyed coloured cat, you, I, rascal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 cat | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cat | amod |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coloured | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fox | punct |
| 11 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cat | amod |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 chief | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chief | cop |
| 15 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chief | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 chief | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cat | acl:relcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chief | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 saw | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 eyes | nummod |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saw | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 's | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 's | cc |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 's | advcl |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 eye | cc |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 eye | nummod |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 's | expl |
| 42 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 rascal | det |
| 44 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 's | nsubj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 's | compound:prt |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 tree | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 tree | det |
| 48 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 's | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the one eyed coloured cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the one eyed coloured cat | chief | over places = place | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not see | past | you | cat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | one eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be up | present | the rascal | the tree; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
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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