Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 36
“Does she not drive well?” cried Crimthann admiringly.
Who acts: woman · What happens: not drive, cry · 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 (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 | _ | 5 drive | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drive | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drive | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 drive | advmod |
| 5 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 drive | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 drive | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drive | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drive in a quote | present · do-support | woman | well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | admiringly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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