Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 39
“She is in truth a wonder of the world and an endless delight to the eye.”
Who acts: ward · What happens: be · To what, where: truth wonder
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 (ward), 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 | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wonder | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 truth | case |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | compound |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wonder | det |
| 7 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delight | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 delight | det |
| 13 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 delight | amod |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 delight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ward | a truth wonder and a endless delight to the eye | of the world | 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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