Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 49
“If that be in truth a woman,” the cleric screamed.
Who acts: that, cleric · What happens: be, scream · To what, where: truth · 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 (that, cleric), 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 screamed | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 truth | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 truth | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 truth | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 truth | case |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 screamed | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 truth | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 truth | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 truth | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cleric | det |
| 12 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 screamed | nsubj |
| 13 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | that | truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the cleric | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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