Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6
“Because in any matter that concerned me Fionn would turn a lie into truth and the truth into a lie.”
Who acts: matter, Fionn · What happens: concern, turn · To what, where: king, lie, matter
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 (matter, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 turn | mark |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 matter | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 concerned | nsubj |
| 7 | concerned | concern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 concerned | obj |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lie | det |
| 13 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 truth | case |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 truth | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 truth | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 lie | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lie | det |
| 21 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern in a quote | past | any matter | the king = king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | would | Fionn | a lie | any matter | into truth and the truth; into a lie | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent lie=Theme in matter=Source into truth=Trajectory into lie=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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