Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 29
“Ah me!” cried Becfola, “why did you fight that fight?”
Who acts: me, you · What happens: cry, fight · To what, where: Becfola, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, you), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 me | discourse |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fight | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fight | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fight | det |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | me | Becfola | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent becfola=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | past · do-support | you | that fight | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Co-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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