Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10
Her heart gave a great throb, and she prepared to speak at once and in great volume before he could formulate any question.
Who acts: heart, king · What happens: give, prepare, speak, formulate · To what, where: great throb, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, king), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 throb | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 throb | amod |
| 6 | throb | throb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prepared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prepared | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prepared | nsubj |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 speak | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 volume | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 volume | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 volume | amod |
| 18 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 once | conj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 formulate | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 formulate | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 formulate | aux |
| 22 | formulate | formulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 speak | advcl |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 question | det |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 formulate | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Becfola's heart | a great throb | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past | heart | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | formulate | could | king | any question | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Product |
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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