Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19
“They feel other things,” she murmured; and an endless conversation recommenced.
Who acts: Iollan, Uct, endless conversation · What happens: feel, murmur, recommence · To what, where: other things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, Uct, endless conversation), 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 | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 recommenced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recommenced | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 conversation | det |
| 13 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conversation | amod |
| 14 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recommenced | nsubj |
| 15 | recommenced | recommence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | Iollan | other things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | Uct | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | recommence | past | a endless conversation | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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