Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 20
“I am afraid in good truth,” Fiacuil whispered, “and the minute my business with you is finished I will trot back as quick as legs will carry me.
Who acts: Fiacuil · What happens: be, whisper, finish, trot, carry · To what, where: good truth, minute, Fiacuil · 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 (Fiacuil), 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 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 truth | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 truth | amod |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 10 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finished | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 finished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 finished | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 minute | det |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 finished | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 business | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 finished | aux:pass |
| 22 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 trot | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 trot | aux |
| 25 | trot | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 finished | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 quick | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 quick | advmod |
| 28 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trot | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 legs | case |
| 30 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 carry | obl |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 carry | aux |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 quick | parataxis |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Fiacuil | good truth | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Fiacuil | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | present · passive | the minute | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | trot in a quote | future | Fiacuil | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry in a quote | future | Fiacuil | as legs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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