Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 47
“The music of what happens,” said great Fionn, “that is the finest music in the world.”
Who acts: music, great Fionn, that · What happens: happen, say, be · To what, where: finest music, world · 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 (music, great Fionn, that), 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 music | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 music | det |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 happens | mark |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happens | nsubj |
| 6 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 music | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fionn | amod |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 music | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 music | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 music | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 music | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 music | det |
| 17 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 music | amod |
| 18 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 music | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 music | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 music | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | the music | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | great Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the finest music | the world | 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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