Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11
“Separated!” said Cona’n, with a grin that made his beard poke all around his face.
Who acts: Cona’n, grin · What happens: separate, say, make · To what, where: beard poke, face · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cona’n, grin), 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 | _ | 2 Separated | punct |
| 2 | Separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Separated | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Separated | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grin | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 grin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grin | det |
| 10 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cona’n | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grin | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 poke | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poke | compound |
| 15 | poke | poke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 face | advmod |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate in a quote | participle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Cona’n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past | a grin | Cona’n's beard poke | Cona’n's face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poke=Product |
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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