Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20
“I went into Britain,” said Goll, “and your father followed me there.
Who acts: Goll, father · What happens: go, say, follow · To what, where: Britain, Goll · 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 (Goll, father), 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 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 Britain | case |
| 5 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 followed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Goll | Britain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into britain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Goll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow in a quote | past | your father | Goll | there | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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