Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14
“She would not be advised,” the servant wailed.
Who acts: servant · What happens: not advise, wail · To what, where: Fionn
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 (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 | _ | 6 advised | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 advised | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 advised | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 advised | aux:pass |
| 6 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wailed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 advised | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 advised | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 servant | det |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wailed | nsubj |
| 11 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not advise speech: other in a quote | would · passive | Fionn | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | wail | past | the servant | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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