Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 34
“There is not a single shiver left in her,” he said.
Who acts: single shiver, dog · What happens: not be, leave, say · To what, where: single shiver · 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 (single shiver, dog), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shiver | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shiver | amod |
| 7 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shiver | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | present | a single shiver | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | participle | a single shiver not said here | in animal | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in she=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dog | 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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