Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29
“I was contented,” she replied, “and what we do not want we do not lack.
Who acts: Fionn, we · What happens: content, reply, not want, not lack · To what, where: Fionn · 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 (Fionn, we), 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 contented | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 contented | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contented | aux:pass |
| 4 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 want | advmod |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lack | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lack | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 lack | advmod |
| 20 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content in a quote | past · passive | Fionn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not lack in a quote | present · do-support | we | 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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