Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23
“Or what?” said Goll with a great laugh.
Who acts: Goll · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Goll), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 laugh | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 laugh | amod |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Goll | with a great laugh | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme with laugh=Manner |
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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