Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 7
“What is this for?” said Fionn, and with his companions he pressed to the spot whence the noise came.
Who acts: Fionn, noise · What happens: be, say, press, come · To what, where: this · 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 (Fionn, noise), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 What | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pressed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pressed | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 companions | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 companions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pressed | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pressed | nsubj |
| 16 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pressed | obl |
| 20 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 came | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pressed | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | press | past | Fionn | with Fionn's companions; to the spot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the noise | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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