Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 40
I cannot escape from him,” she said, “and I am afraid,” and at that she wept noiselessly and stared on Fionn.
Who acts: I, Magician · What happens: not escape, say, be, weep, stare · To what, where: that · 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 (I, Magician), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 escape | advmod |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 afraid | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wept | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 wept | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wept | nsubj |
| 23 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | conj |
| 24 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 23 wept | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stared | cc |
| 26 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wept | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Fionn | case |
| 28 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 stared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape | can | I | from rumour | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weep in a quote | past | Magician | that | noiselessly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | stare in a quote | past | Magician not said here | on Fionn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=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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