Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11
“That is too long a story and it is too intricate and pressing to be told, also I have no time to spare now.”
Who acts: That, story, Fionn · What happens: be, press, tell, have, spare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, story, 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 | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 intricate | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 intricate | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 intricate | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 intricate | advmod |
| 12 | intricate | intricate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pressing | cc |
| 14 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 intricate | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pressing | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 spare | mark |
| 25 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 spare | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | story | intricate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | press in a quote | gerund | story not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Fionn | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | now | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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