Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 44
“Would not that be a great happening!” and he stared in ecstasy across the grass at those visions which a boy’s mind knows.
Who acts: boy, mind · What happens: not be, happen, stare, know, mind · To what, where: visions
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 (boy, mind), 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 | _ | 7 great | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 great | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 great | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 great | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 great | advcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 happening | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stared | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ecstasy | case |
| 15 | ecstasy | ecstasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | obl |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grass | det |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 visions | case |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 visions | det |
| 21 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stared | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 knows | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knows | nsubj |
| 27 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 visions | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | would | great, that property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stare | past | boy | across the grass; at that visions; in ecstasy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ecstasy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | a boy's mind | that visions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mind | a boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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