Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
Tongue it, a Vran!” he shouted, “Bell it out, a Heo’lan!”
Who acts: tongue · What happens: tongue, shout, bell out · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue), 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 | Tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tongue | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vran | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Vran | det |
| 5 | Vran | Vran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tongue | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vran | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vran | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bell | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bell | punct |
| 12 | Bell | bell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shouted | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Bell | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 Bell | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Heo’lan | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Heo’lan | det |
| 17 | Heo’lan | Heo'lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bell | parataxis |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Heo’lan | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tongue | tongue | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | Tongue | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bell out | infinitive | tongue | tree rules |
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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