Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 40

A stone on a stone makes a house, dear heart, and a word on a word tells a tale.”

Who acts: stone, word · What happens: make, tell · To what, where: house, tale · 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 (stone, word), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	nmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heart	punct
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heart	amod
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tells	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tells	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 word	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tale	det
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a stone on a stone	a house and dear heart					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
2	tell speech: assert	present	a word on a word	a tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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