Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 44
Fionn’s brother, Cairell Whiteskin, broke into the conversation with a harsh laugh.
Who acts: brother · What happens: break · To what, where: conversation
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 (brother), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fionn | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cairell | punct |
| 5 | Cairell | Cairell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | appos |
| 6 | Whiteskin | Whiteskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cairell | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 conversation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conversation | det |
| 11 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 laugh | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 laugh | det |
| 14 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 laugh | amod |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Fionn's brother | into the conversation result; with a harsh laugh | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into conversation=Result with laugh=Instrument |
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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