Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9
“He is,” that gossip whispered--“he is a magician.”
Who acts: person, gossip · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: magician · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (person, gossip), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 gossip | det |
| 7 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 magician | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 magician | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 magician | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 magician | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | person | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | that gossip | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | person | a magician | tree rules |
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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