Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 41
“And as regards Fionn?” said Cormac.
Who acts: Cormac · What happens: regard, say · To what, where: Fionn · 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 (Cormac), 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 | _ | 4 regards | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 regards | cc |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 regards | mark |
| 4 | regards | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 regards | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 regards | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 regards | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard in a quote | present | Fionn | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Cormac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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