Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 65
“By my hand that is a notable question,” his companion stammered.
Who acts: hand, companion · What happens: be, stammer · To what, where: notable question · 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 (hand, companion), 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 | _ | 14 stammered | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stammered | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 question | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 question | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 question | det |
| 8 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 question | amod |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companion | nmod:poss |
| 13 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stammered | nsubj |
| 14 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stammered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my hand | a notable question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | past | Crimthann's companion | by my hand | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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