Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 32
“I shall never master that hard art,” lamented his fosterling.
Who acts: Crimthann · What happens: not master, lament · To what, where: hard art, fosterling · 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), 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 | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 master | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 master | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 master | advmod |
| 5 | master | master | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lamented | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 art | det |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 art | amod |
| 8 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 master | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 11 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fosterling | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fosterling | fosterling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lamented | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not master in a quote | shall | Crimthann | that hard art | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lament | past | son's fosterling | 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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