Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 55
“I will go away now,” his companion whispered, “for it is growing darker where you would have thought there was no more room for darkness, and there is an eerie feeling abroad which I do not like.
Who acts: companion, you, more room, eerie feeling · What happens: go away, whisper, grow, think, be, not like · To what, where: eerie feeling · 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 (companion, you, more room, eerie feeling), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 companion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 growing | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 growing | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 growing | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 growing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 growing | aux |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 18 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 growing | xcomp |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 thought | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 thought | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thought | aux |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 darker | advcl |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 room | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 darkness | case |
| 30 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 room | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 is | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 is | cc |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 is | expl |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispered | parataxis |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 feeling | det |
| 36 | eerie | eerie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feeling | amod |
| 37 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 is | nsubj |
| 38 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 37 feeling | advmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 like | obj |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 like | nsubj |
| 41 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 like | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 like | advmod |
| 43 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | future | Fionn's companion = companion | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Fionn's companion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | present · progressive | companion | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | would · perfect | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | more room for darkness | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | a eerie feeling | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | Fionn's companion = companion | a eerie feeling | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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