Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 42
“You are the son of a friend,” said the great-hearted monarch.
Who acts: You, son · What happens: be, say · To what, where: son, hearted monarch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, son), 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 son | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monarch | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hearted | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 15 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 monarch | amod |
| 16 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the son | of a friend | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the son | the hearted monarch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monarch=Topic |
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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