Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 39
“Women,” he said, “are shamefaced, they do not like to appear eager when others are observing them.”
Who acts: Women, others · What happens: say, shamefac, not like, appear, observe · To what, where: eager, women · 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 (Women, others), 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 Women | punct |
| 2 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Women | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Women | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shamefaced | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shamefaced | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shamefaced | aux:pass |
| 10 | shamefaced | shamefac | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 appear | mark |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | eager | eager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appear | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 observing | advmod |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 observing | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 observing | aux |
| 22 | observing | observe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 appear | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 observing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | shamefac in a quote | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | women = woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | appear not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | women = woman not said here | eager | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eager=Theme | ||||
| 5 | observe in a quote | present · progressive | others | women = woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=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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