Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 53
“I cannot climb a tree,” she sobbed, “I shall be eaten by the wolves.”
Who acts: Wolves, mistress · What happens: not climb, sob, eat · To what, where: tree, Wolves · 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 (Wolves, mistress), 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 | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 climb | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 climb | advmod |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sobbed | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climb | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sobbed | nsubj |
| 11 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eaten | aux:pass |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sobbed | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wolves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wolves | det |
| 20 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eaten | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobbed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb in a quote | can | Wolves = wolf | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sob | past | mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | shall · passive | the wolves | Wolves = wolf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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