Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 26
“My name is Saeve, and I am a woman of Faery,” she commenced.
Who acts: name, Fionn, woman, My · What happens: be, commence, name · To what, where: Saeve, woman
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 (name, Fionn, woman, My), 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 | _ | 5 Saeve | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Saeve | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Saeve | cop |
| 5 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 woman | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 woman | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 woman | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Saeve | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Faery | case |
| 13 | Faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 commenced | nsubj |
| 17 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 woman | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Saeve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Saeve | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Fionn | a woman | of Faery | tree rules | |||
| 3 | commence | past | woman | a woman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication 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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