Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 19
“Fionn will blame me,” he cried in despair.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: blame, cry · To what, where: Fionn, despair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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 blame | punct |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | aux |
| 4 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 blame | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 despair | case |
| 11 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame in a quote | future | Fionn | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Fionn | despair | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=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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