Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 34
“We may think with our minds and with our tongues, but we should never think with our noses and with our eyebrows.”
Who acts: We, our · What happens: think, not think, mind
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 (We, our), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 minds | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 minds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tongues | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tongues | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 minds | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 think | advmod |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 noses | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 noses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 think | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eyebrows | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 eyebrows | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 noses | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | may | We | with our minds and our tongues | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | should | we | with our noses and our eyebrows | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | our | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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