Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 46
“There is yet but one Ard-Ri’,” the monarch answered.
Who acts: one Ard Ri, monarch · What happens: be, answer · 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 (one Ard Ri, monarch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1205): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Ri | nummod |
| 7 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ri | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ard | punct |
| 9 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monarch | det |
| 14 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | one Ard Ri | there | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the monarch | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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