Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21
“At this hour,” said the patient king, “the bed is better than the road.”
Who acts: patient king, bed · What happens: say, be · 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 (patient king, bed), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 better | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 better | cop |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 better | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the patient king | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the bed | than the road; good property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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