Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37
“She thinks I have been unable to get away from the battle, or that I was forced to remain for the feast.”
Who acts: Goll · What happens: think, be, get away, force, remain · To what, where: battle, Goll · 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 (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 | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 unable | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unable | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 unable | cop |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battle | det |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forced | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 forced | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 forced | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forced | aux:pass |
| 19 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 unable | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 remain | mark |
| 21 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 forced | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 feast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feast | det |
| 24 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unable | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Goll | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Goll | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get away in a quote | to-infinitive | Goll not said here | the battle | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from battle=Source | |||
| 4 | force in a quote | past · passive | Goll | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | to-infinitive | Goll not said here | for the feast | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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