Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 7
“I will reproach him,” she thought.
Who acts: Becfola · What happens: reproach, think · To what, where: king · 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 (Becfola), 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 | _ | 4 reproach | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reproach | aux |
| 4 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reproach | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reproach | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reproach in a quote | future | Becfola | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Becfola | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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