Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 1
“I used to live,” he said, “in a wide, beautiful place.
Who acts: I, he · What happens: use, live, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, he), 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 used | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wide | punct |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | past | I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | he | 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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