Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 30
Whatever was thought, what the king said was as direct in utterance as it was in observation.
Who acts: king, utterance · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: utterance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, utterance), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 direct | advcl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux:pass |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Whatever | acl:relcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | acl:relcl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 direct | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 direct | advmod |
| 11 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 utterance | case |
| 13 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 direct | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 observation | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 observation | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 observation | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 observation | case |
| 18 | observation | observation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 direct | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 direct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | utterance | direct property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | utterance | as observation | 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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