Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 32
“Qu--,” said the duck, and he disappeared before he had time to get the “-ack” out of him.
Who acts: Qu · What happens: say, disappear, have, get · To what, where: duck, ack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Qu), 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 | _ | 2 Qu | punct |
| 2 | Qu | Qu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Qu | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Qu | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Qu | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 duck | det |
| 8 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 disappeared | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disappeared | advcl |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ack | det |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ack | punct |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ack | punct |
| 22 | ack | ack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ack | punct |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Qu | the duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | Qu | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Qu | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Qu not said here | the ack | out Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ack=Stimulus |
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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