Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 40
“I have learned much from you, dear master,” said Fionn gratefully.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: learn, say · 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 (Fionn), 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 | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 learned | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | Fionn | from you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from you=Source | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | gratefully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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