--- title: "It's little I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "It's little I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "that a hound and a lad should be killed at my court." Who acts: head, O'Donnell. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/115/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/) / 115 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 115 "It's little I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "that a hound and a lad should be killed at my court." **Who acts:** head, O'Donnell · **What happens:** be, anger, say, kill · **To what, where:** O'Donnell, that, court · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, O'Donnell), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:20:115 # text = "It's little I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "that a hound and a lad should be killed at my court." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 angered anger VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 O'Donnell O'Donnell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | head *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **anger** *in a quote* | present · passive | | O'Donnell | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | O'Donnell | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | should · passive | | that | | my court | | | vn remove-10.1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/116/) - ↑ back to [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/)