Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 45
“I did taste it by chance,” Fionn laughed, “for while the fish was roasting a great blister rose on its skin.
Who acts: proud Fionn, Fionn, fish · What happens: taste, laugh, roast · To what, where: fish, great blister rose · 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 (proud Fionn, Fionn, fish), 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 taste | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 laughed | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taste | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 chance | case |
| 7 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | nsubj |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 roasting | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 roasting | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 roasting | mark |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 roasting | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roasting | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 roasting | aux |
| 19 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 laughed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rose | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rose | amod |
| 22 | blister | blister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rose | compound |
| 23 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roasting | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 skin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rose | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste in a quote | past · do-support | proud Fionn = fionn | fish | by chance | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by chance=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | roast in a quote | past · progressive | the fish | a great blister rose | on fish's skin | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rose=Patient on skin=Instrument |
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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