Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 55
The observation of a king is faultless--it is proved a thousand times over in the tales, and this king’s equipment was as royal as the next.
Who acts: observation, equipment · What happens: be, prove, observe · To what, where: observation, tales, king
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 (observation, equipment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 observation | det |
| 2 | observation | observation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faultless | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 observation | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faultless | cop |
| 7 | faultless | faultless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 proved | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proved | aux:pass |
| 11 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 faultless | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thousand | det |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proved | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 proved | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tales | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tales | det |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proved | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 royal | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 royal | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 equipment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 royal | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 royal | cop |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 royal | advmod |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faultless | parataxis |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 next | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 next | det |
| 30 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 royal | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 faultless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the observation of a king | faultless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | present · passive | observation | the tales | time | over property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | this king's equipment | royal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | this king's equipment not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | observe | a king | nom observation «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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