Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9
“He will be gone in the morning,” said the hopeful master.
Who acts: hopeful master · What happens: go, say · To what, where: servant · 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 (hopeful master), 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 | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 master | det |
| 13 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 master | amod |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future · passive | servant | morning | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hopeful master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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