Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26
Whistles and chirps, coos and caws and croaks, would have grown familiar to him.
Who acts: Whistles · What happens: grow
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whistles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:283): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whistles | whistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chirps | cc |
| 3 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whistles | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coos | punct |
| 5 | coos | coo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whistles | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caws | cc |
| 7 | caws | caw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whistles | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 croaks | cc |
| 9 | croaks | croak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whistles | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whistles | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grown | aux |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 familiar | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would · perfect | Whistles and chirps and coos and caws and croaks | familiar property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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