Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 32
“I am sure you will not,” the other murmured, as he turned and walked slowly across the grass and behind the sheltering bushes on the ridge.
Who acts: other, Fionn · What happens: be, murmur, turn, walk · To what, where: grass · 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 (other, 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 will | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 will | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 murmured | nsubj |
| 12 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 turned | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 murmured | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | conj |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 grass | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grass | det |
| 22 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bushes | cc |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 bushes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bushes | det |
| 26 | sheltering | sheltering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bushes | compound |
| 27 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grass | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 ridge | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ridge | det |
| 30 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bushes | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the other = other | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | Fionn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | Fionn not said here | the grass and the sheltering bushes on the ridge | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across grass=Trajectory |
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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