Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22
“My name is Cael of the Iron,” the stranger answered, “and I am son to the King of Thessaly.”
Who acts: name, Cael, My · What happens: be, answer, name · To what, where: Cael, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Cael, My), 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 Cael | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Cael | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Cael | cop |
| 5 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Iron | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Iron | det |
| 8 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cael | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cael | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cael | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stranger | det |
| 12 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 son | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 son | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | cop |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Thessaly | case |
| 24 | Thessaly | Thessaly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Cael | of the Iron | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Cael | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Cael | son | to the King of Thessaly | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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