Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 43
“Who was that person?” said the alarmed monarch.
Who acts: person · What happens: be, say, alarm · To what, where: person, alarmed monarch · 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 (person), 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 | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 person | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monarch | det |
| 10 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 monarch | amod |
| 11 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that person | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | that person | the alarmed monarch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monarch=Topic | ||||
| 3 | alarm | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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