Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26
“There is going and to spare in that beast yet,” his mind went on.
Who acts: mind, Hist · What happens: go, spare, go on, mind · To what, where: beast
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 (mind, Hist), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spare | cc |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spare | mark |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 beast | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 beast | det |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spare | obl |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 spare | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | that beast | yet | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | Hist's mind | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mind | Hist | nom mind «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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