Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 34
“It is no small boast,” Cona’n murmured, staring at him.
Who acts: Fianna, Cona’n · What happens: be, murmur, stare · To what, where: small boast · 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 (Fianna, Cona’n), 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 boast | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 boast | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boast | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 boast | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boast | amod |
| 6 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boast | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 boast | punct |
| 9 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | nsubj |
| 10 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 staring | punct |
| 12 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 murmured | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 staring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Fianna | no small boast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | Cona’n | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | Cona’n not said here | at Cona’n = cona'n | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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