Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 52
“Here it is,” said Fiacuil, taking the Birgha from under his cloak.
Who acts: spear, Fiacuil · What happens: be, say, take · To what, where: Birgha, cloak · 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 (spear, 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | parataxis |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Birgha | det |
| 12 | Birgha | Birgha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 cloak | case |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 cloak | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | spear | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fiacuil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Fiacuil not said here | the Birgha | Fiacuil's cloak | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent birgha=Theme from cloak=Initial_Location |
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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