Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“Alas!” groaned deep-wounded Fionn.
What happens: groan · To what, where: wounded 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: 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 | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 groaned | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wounded | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 deep | punct |
| 8 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Fionn | amod |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | wounded Fionn | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fionn=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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