Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 17
“Nay, this must be told, sweet lady,” said the king.
Who acts: king · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: this, sweet lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 told | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must · passive | this | sweet lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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