Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8
“We shall test his wisdom and his hardihood.”
Who acts: We · What happens: test · To what, where: wisdom
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 (We), 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 test | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 test | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 test | aux |
| 4 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hardihood | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hardihood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hardihood | hardihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wisdom | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 test | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 test | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test in a quote | shall | We | person's wisdom and person's hardihood | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=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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