Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 26
“I will be back in a short time,” he said heavily.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, say · To what, where: short time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. 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 | _ | 5 back | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 back | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 back | cop |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 back | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | Fionn | time | back property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | a short time not said here | heavily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=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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