Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10

“We were distrustful,” the servant continued.

Who acts: We, servant · What happens: be, continue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, servant), 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 distrustful	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 distrustful	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 distrustful	cop
4	distrustful	distrustful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 continued	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 distrustful	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 distrustful	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	We					distrustful property	tree rules
2	continue	past	the servant						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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