Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10
“And if we had not been separated--” the other growled.
Who acts: other · What happens: not separate, growl · To what, where: we
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 growled | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 separated | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 separated | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 separated | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 separated | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 separated | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 separated | aux:pass |
| 8 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 growled | advcl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 separated | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 separated | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 growled | nsubj |
| 13 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not separate a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | we | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | growl | past | the other | 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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