Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8
“They are fighting all the hounds of the Fianna,” cried a champion.
Who acts: companions, champion · What happens: fight, cry · To what, where: hounds · 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 (companions, champion), 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 fighting | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighting | aux |
| 4 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hounds | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hounds | det |
| 7 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fighting | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fianna | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fianna | det |
| 10 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hounds | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighting | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighting | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 champion | det |
| 15 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | present · progressive | companions = companion | all hounds of the Fianna | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a champion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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