Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19
“Continue,” said Fionn, and he held Goll’s eye under the great beetle of his brow.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: continue, say, hold · To what, where: eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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 Continue | punct |
| 2 | Continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | nsubj |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Goll | case |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 beetle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beetle | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beetle | amod |
| 17 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brow | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beetle | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Fionn | Goll's eye | under the great beetle of Fionn's brow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme under beetle=Location |
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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