Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 35
“It is no boast at all,” said Cael, “and, to show my quality and standing, I will propose a deed to you.”
Who acts: boast · What happens: be, say, show, propose · To what, where: boast, all, quality, deed, you · 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 (boast), 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 boast | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boast | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boast | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 boast | det |
| 5 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 boast | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boast | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boast | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 show | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 quality | nmod:poss |
| 19 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 standing | cc |
| 21 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quality | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 propose | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 propose | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 propose | aux |
| 25 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 show | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deed | det |
| 27 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 propose | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 propose | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | boast | no boast | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no boast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | my quality and standing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent quality=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | propose in a quote | future | no boast = boast | a deed | you | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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