Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 20
“In good truth,” said he, “the woman is driving two horses.”
Who acts: Crimthann, woman · What happens: say, drive · To what, where: good truth, two horses · 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 (Crimthann, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 truth | amod |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 driving | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 driving | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 driving | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 driving | aux |
| 14 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 driving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Crimthann | good truth | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in truth=Manner | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | present · progressive | the woman | two horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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