Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 55
“This is good news,” Fionn cried joyfully, “for the moment you came through the door I loved and desired you, and the thought that you wished for another man went into my heart like a sword.”
Who acts: This, good news, you, thought · What happens: be, cry, come, love, desire, wish · To what, where: good news, door, you, thought, 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 (This, good news, you, thought), 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 news | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 news | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 news | amod |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 loved | nsubj |
| 22 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 door | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 desired | cc |
| 24 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 loved | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 desired | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thought | det |
| 29 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 wished | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 wished | nsubj |
| 32 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | acl:relcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 man | case |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wished | obl |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 sword | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 sword | det |
| 42 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | good news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | good news | joyfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | you | the door | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | love in a quote | past | good news = news | the door not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | desire in a quote | past | good news = news not said here | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | past | you | the thought | for another man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||
| 7 | go in a quote | past | the thought | my heart | like a sword | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location |
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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