Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 14
“I know that foreigner well,” the big man commented.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, comment · To what, where: big man · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 foreigner | mark |
| 5 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 know | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 12 | commented | comment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | comment speech: other | participle | the big man not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: 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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