Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 63
“That was true indeed, and I have caught the fish.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: Fionn
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 (That), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | aux |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | That | indeed, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Fionn | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Theme |
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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