Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16
“It is the more wonderful,” he continued gently, “for I should know every person that is here.
Who acts: bearing, Chief, woman, person · What happens: be, continue, know · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bearing, Chief, woman, person), 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 | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 more | det |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 wonderful | advmod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | parataxis |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 continued | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | conj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 here | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | cop |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 person | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bearing | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Chief | gently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | should | woman | every person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | every person | here property | 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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