Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 66
“It must not become a greater one,” the poet replied sternly.
Who acts: omission · What happens: not become, reply · To what, where: greater one, poet · 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 (omission), 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 become | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 become | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 become | advmod |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poet | det |
| 12 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 poet | acl |
| 14 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 13 replied | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not become in a quote | must | omission | a greater one | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the poet not said here | sternly 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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