Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 18
He spoke gently and angrily, and gently and angrily, so that I thought he would never stop talking, but in the end he struck her with a hazel rod, so that she was forced to follow him when he went away.
Who acts: man, I, deer · What happens: speak, think, not stop, talk, strike, force · To what, where: deer, end, man · 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 (man, I, deer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 angrily | cc |
| 5 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 3 gently | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gently | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gently | cc |
| 8 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 angrily | cc |
| 10 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 gently | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stop | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stop | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 stop | advmod |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stop | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 struck | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 struck | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 struck | nsubj |
| 27 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 struck | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 rod | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rod | det |
| 31 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rod | compound |
| 32 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 forced | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 forced | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 forced | aux:pass |
| 38 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 struck | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 follow | mark |
| 40 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 forced | xcomp |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 follow | obj |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 went | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 went | nsubj |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 follow | advcl |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 went | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | gently property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not stop | would | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | man not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | strike | past | man | deer | in the end | with a hazel rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with rod=Instrument | ||
| 6 | force | past · passive | deer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | follow | to-infinitive | deer not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go away | past | man | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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