Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16
“You are doing that on purpose,” said a savage whisper from the foot of the tree.
Who acts: You, savage whisper · What happens: do, say · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, savage whisper), 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 | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 purpose | mark |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doing | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 whisper | det |
| 12 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whisper | amod |
| 13 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a savage whisper | the foot of the tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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