Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37
“That,” he said, “would hold good for the white-striking or blows of fists, but not for the red-striking or sword-strokes.”
Who acts: king, fists · What happens: say, hold, strike, blow · To what, where: That, blows · 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 (king, fists), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hold | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 striking | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 striking | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 striking | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 16 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hold | advcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 blows | cc |
| 18 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 striking | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fists | case |
| 20 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blows | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 striking | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 striking | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 striking | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 striking | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 striking | det |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 striking | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 red | punct |
| 28 | striking | striking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 strokes | cc |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strokes | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sword | punct |
| 32 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 striking | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | That | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold in a quote | would | good property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike in a quote | gerund | blows of fists | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | |||||
| 4 | blow in a quote | fists | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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