Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10
That band should have chattered like a rookery.
What happens: chatter · To what, where: band
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 chattered | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chattered | aux |
| 5 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rookery | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rookery | det |
| 8 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chattered | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | should · perfect · passive | that band | like a rookery | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: 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: «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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