Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 38
His voice commands out of the spaces, and it demands secretly in the heart.
Who acts: voice · What happens: command, demand · To what, where: spaces, heart · 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 (voice), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commands | nsubj |
| 3 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 spaces | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spaces | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spaces | det |
| 7 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commands | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 demands | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 demands | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 demands | nsubj |
| 11 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 commands | conj |
| 12 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 11 demands | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 demands | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present | rumour's voice | the spaces | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent out space=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | voice | the heart | secretly property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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