Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 54
“It is very clever to know things as you know them,” Fionn replied wonderingly.
Who acts: It, you, Fionn · What happens: be, know, reply · To what, where: things · 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 (It, you, 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 clever | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clever | csubj |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 15 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | parataxis |
| 17 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 16 replied | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | things = thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Fionn | wonderingly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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