Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 41
But no word was uttered, no movement made except the movement and the utterance of the Ard-Ri’.
Who acts: movement · What happens: utter, make · To what, where: word, Ard Ri
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (movement), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 uttered | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uttered | aux:pass |
| 5 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 movement | det |
| 8 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uttered | parataxis |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 movement | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 movement | det |
| 12 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 utterance | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 utterance | det |
| 15 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 movement | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ri | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ri | det |
| 18 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ri | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ard | punct |
| 20 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 utterance | nmod |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past · passive | no word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | no movement | except the movement and the utterance of the Ard Ri | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | utter | the Ard Ri | nom utterance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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