Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 45
“There are Dermods and Dermods in this world,” she quoted.
Who acts: Dermods, Halt · What happens: be, quote · To what, where: world · 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 (Dermods, Halt), 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 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 quoted | ccomp |
| 4 | Dermods | Dermods | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Dermods | cc |
| 6 | Dermods | Dermods | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dermods | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 are | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 quoted | nsubj |
| 13 | quoted | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 quoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Dermods and Dermods | this world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 2 | quote speech: other | past | Halt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how 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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