Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 54
“It is true,” Becfola replied, and she became suddenly to the king’s eye a whiteness and a stare.
Who acts: chair, Becfola · What happens: be, reply, become · To what, where: whiteness · 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 (chair, Becfola), 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 | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 became | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 whiteness | det |
| 20 | whiteness | whiteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stare | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stare | det |
| 23 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whiteness | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | chair | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Becfola | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Becfola | a whiteness and a stare | to the king's eye; suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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