Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 27
“Wretched in truth,” the Chief murmured.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: murmur
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 (Chief), 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 | _ | 2 Wretched | punct |
| 2 | Wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 murmured | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wretched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretched | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretched | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chief | det |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | past | the Chief | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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