Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23
“I know how to do these things,” the other man commented with a slow nod of the head.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, do, comment, nod · To what, where: things, other man, head · 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 do | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 14 | commented | comment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 nod | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nod | det |
| 17 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nod | amod |
| 18 | nod | nod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commented | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nod | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | this things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | comment speech: other | participle | the other man not said here | with a slow nod of the head | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | nod | the head | nom nod «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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