Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 35
“I think too,” said the poet, “that that is what would be done.”
Who acts: poet, that · What happens: think, say, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poet | det |
| 9 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 what | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 what | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the poet = poet | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | would · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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