Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 49
But at this demand the lady frowned and answered decidedly:
Who acts: lady · What happens: frown, answer · To what, where: demand
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 (lady), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 frowned | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 demand | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 demand | det |
| 4 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frowned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frowned | nsubj |
| 7 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frowned | conj |
| 10 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 frowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | past | the lady | this demand | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the lady not said here | decidedly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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