Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 58
“He is waiting for me,” said Becfola with proud shame, “and the thought that he should wait wrings my heart.”
Who acts: king, Becfola · What happens: wait, say · To what, where: wrings · 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 (king, 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 waiting | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 shame | case |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shame | amod |
| 13 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shame | appos |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 wait | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wait | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 wait | aux |
| 22 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | acl |
| 23 | wrings | wring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wait | obj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wait | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | king | for Becfola | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Becfola | with proud shame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | should | king | wrings | tree rules |
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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