Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16
“That will happen indeed,” Goll admitted.
Who acts: That, Goll · What happens: happen, admit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Goll), 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 happen | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 admitted | ccomp |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 8 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 admitted | nsubj |
| 9 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 admitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | future | That | indeed property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | Goll | vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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