Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22
“The fawn runs well,” his thought continued.
Who acts: fawn, thought · What happens: run, continue, think · 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 (fawn, thought), 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 runs | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fawn | det |
| 3 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 runs | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 runs | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | present | the fawn | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | fawn's thought | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think | fawn | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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