Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
“They seemed to be with it,” said the servant humbly
Who acts: dogs, servant · What happens: seem, be, say · 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 (dogs, 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 | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 it | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 it | cop |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | past | dogs = dog | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | dogs = dog not said here | with master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the servant | humbly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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