Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 27
“We have caught something on this hunt,” said he to Caelte mac Rongn.
Who acts: boy · What happens: catch, say · To what, where: We, Caelte mac · 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 (boy), 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 caught | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hunt | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hunt | det |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mac | case |
| 14 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mac | compound |
| 15 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | Rongn | Rongn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mac | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | We | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary something=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy | Caelte mac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mac=Recipient 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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