Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15
“Good, my Treasure,” Dermod answered, “our minds are astonished when we see a woman able to drive a cow to pasture, for it has always seemed to us that they do not drive well.”
Who acts: Dermod, minds, we, Treasure, my, our · What happens: answer, be, see, drive, pasture, have · To what, where: cow, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dermod, minds, we, Treasure), 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Treasure | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Treasure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Good | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 8 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonished | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonished | punct |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 minds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 astonished | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | cop |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Good | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 see | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 able | nsubj |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drive | mark |
| 23 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cow | det |
| 25 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drive | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pasture | mark |
| 27 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 drive | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 has | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | conj |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 seemed | advmod |
| 33 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 has | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 seemed | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 drive | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 drive | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 drive | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 drive | advmod |
| 40 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seemed | advcl |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 drive | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Dermod | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | our minds | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | drive in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | a cow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pasture in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | Treasure | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | seem in a quote | past | Treasure not said here | us | always property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | not drive in a quote | present · do-support | minds = mind | well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | mind in a quote | our | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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