Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10

“On the morning of Sunday,” Dermod exploded.

Who acts: Dermod · What happens: explode

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dermod), 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	_	10 exploded	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exploded	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Sunday	case
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 morning	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
9	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 exploded	nsubj
10	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 exploded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	past	Dermod				morning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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