Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 22
“I could not get at him in time or---”
Who acts: great · What happens: not get
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 --- | cc |
| 11 | --- | --- | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | could | great | time | at great | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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