Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28
“That was not reasonable,” the other chided with a blithe heart.
Who acts: That · What happens: not be, chide · To what, where: other
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 (That), 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 reasonable | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reasonable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reasonable | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reasonable | advmod |
| 5 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reasonable | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reasonable | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chided | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | chided | chide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reasonable | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 13 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chided | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reasonable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | That | reasonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chide | participle | That not said here | the other | with a blithe heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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