Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 75
Fionn inquired as calmly, and as though addressing the air.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: inquire, address · To what, where: air
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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 calmly | case |
| 4 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 2 inquired | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 addressing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 addressing | cc |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 addressing | advmod |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 inquired | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 addressing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | Fionn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | address | gerund | Fionn not said here | the air | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Destination |
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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