Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4
“And it was you that commenced it,” Cona’n continued.
Who acts: eleven hundred, you, Cona’n · What happens: be, commence, continue · To what, where: you, eleven hundred
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 (eleven hundred, you, Cona’n), 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 | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 you | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 commenced | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 commenced | nsubj |
| 7 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 continued | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 commenced | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 11 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | eleven hundred = hundred | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence in a quote | past | you | eleven hundred = hundred | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Cona’n | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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