Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 16

“The last time I saw the deer,” the child continued, “the dark man was speaking to her.

Who acts: soul, child, dark man · What happens: see, continue, speak · To what, where: deer, child · 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 (soul, child, dark man), 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	_	6 saw	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl:unmarked
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 continued	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 continued	nsubj
13	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speaking	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 speaking	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speaking	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 speaking	aux
20	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 continued	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 speaking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	my soul = soul	the deer		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus
2	continue	past	the child				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	the dark man		child		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

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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