Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16
“This is not a time for engagements,” said the calm monarch.
Who acts: This, calm monarch · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, calm monarch), 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 | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 time | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 engagements | case |
| 8 | engagements | engagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monarch | det |
| 13 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 monarch | amod |
| 14 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | This | a time | for engagements | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the calm monarch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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