Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 33
“There is nothing wanting to this banquet, O Chief,” said he.
Who acts: nothing, Goll · What happens: be, want, say · 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 (nothing, Goll), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 nothing | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 banquet | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 banquet | det |
| 8 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chief | punct |
| 10 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 Chief | case |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanting | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | gerund | to this banquet; Chief vocative | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to banquet=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Goll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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