Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22
“I had observed but not noticed,” the young man admitted.
Who acts: I · What happens: observe, not notice, admit · To what, where: young man · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 observed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 observed | aux |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 noticed | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 noticed | advmod |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 observed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obj |
| 13 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe in a quote | past · perfect | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not notice in a quote | participle | I not said here | the young man | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | participle | the young man not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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