Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 20
“They do that to no one,” said a bystander.
Who acts: Bran, bystander · What happens: do, say · To what, where: that, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bran, bystander), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bystander | det |
| 12 | bystander | bystander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Bran | that | no one | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a bystander | 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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