Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

“But,” Dermod continued, “when we see a woman driving a chariot of two horses, then we are amazed indeed.”

Who acts: Dermod, we, woman · What happens: continue, see, drive, be · To what, where: woman, chariot

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, we, woman), 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 continued	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 continued	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
5	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 continued	nsubj
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 see	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 continued	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chariot	det
16	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 driving	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 horses	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 horses	nummod
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 chariot	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 amazed	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 amazed	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 amazed	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 amazed	cop
24	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 see	conj
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 amazed	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Dermod				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see in a quote	present	we	a woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	drive in a quote	gerund	a woman not said here	a chariot of two horses			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme chariot=Trajectory
4	is in a quote	present	we		then	amazed, indeed property	tree rules

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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