Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21
“In hell they are,” the cleric replied with enthusiasm.
What happens: be, reply · To what, where: cleric
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: 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 | _ | 9 cleric | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hell | case |
| 3 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 are | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleric | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cleric | det |
| 9 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cleric | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 enthusiasm | case |
| 12 | enthusiasm | enthusiasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cleric | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cleric | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the cleric not said here | with enthusiasm | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with enthusiasm=Eventuality |
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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