Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18
“No youngster is any good with a sword,” Conan replied.
Who acts: youngster, Conan · What happens: be, reply · 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 (youngster, Conan), 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 | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 youngster | det |
| 3 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sword | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 12 | Conan | Conan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | no youngster | with a sword; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Conan | vn respond-113 «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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