Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 28
“And you have come to this realm,” cried Fionn, doubting his ears.
Who acts: you, Fionn · What happens: come, cry, doubt · To what, where: realm, ears · 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 (you, 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 realm | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 realm | det |
| 8 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doubting | punct |
| 14 | doubting | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cried | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 doubting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | you | this realm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to realm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Fionn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | doubt | gerund | Fionn not said here | Fionn's ears | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
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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