Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 16
“‘Be at ease, O King,’ said the fisherman.
Who acts: ease · What happens: be, say · To what, where: ease, fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ease), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ease | punct |
| 3 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ease | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ease | case |
| 5 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 7 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ease | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ease | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ease | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fisherman | det |
| 13 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | ease | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ease | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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