Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 37
“It is an impertinence,” he cried, “to boast at this table that you killed my father.”
Who acts: anger, Fionn, table · What happens: be, cry, boast, kill · To what, where: impertinence, table, father · 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 (anger, Fionn, table), 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 | _ | 5 impertinence | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 impertinence | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 impertinence | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 impertinence | det |
| 5 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 impertinence | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 impertinence | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boast | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 boast | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 boast | mark |
| 13 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boast | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 killed | nsubj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | nsubj |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 table | acl:relcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 boast | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | anger | a impertinence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Fionn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | boast speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | this table | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | past | this table | my father | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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