Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24
“There is no doubting it,” the prince answered from a knitted and thought-tormented brow.
Who acts: doubting, prince · What happens: be, doubting, answer, knit, think, torment · To what, where: knitted tormented brow · 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 (doubting, prince), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 doubting | det |
| 5 | doubting | doubting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 doubting | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 brow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 brow | det |
| 14 | knitted | knit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 brow | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knitted | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 18 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 brow | amod |
| 19 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no doubting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | doubting in a quote | doubting | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | a knitted tormented brow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | knit | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | torment | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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