Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 12
“A man,” said Fionn, and he listened in that direction, back towards the city.
Who acts: man, Fionn · What happens: say, listen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 listened | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listened | nsubj |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 listened | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 back | punct |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 listened | advmod |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | Fionn | in that direction | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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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