Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 20
“I shall hold her hand again,” Fionn entrusted to Caelte’s ear.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: hold, entrust · To what, where: hand, ear
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 (Fionn), 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 hold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | aux |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 hold | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 entrusted | nsubj |
| 11 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ear | case |
| 13 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Caelte | case |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entrusted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | shall | Fionn | Cona’n's hand | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | entrust | past | Fionn | Caelte's ear | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ear=Recipient |
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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