Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 27
“They had no need of wits,” Tuan said.
Who acts: wits, Tuan · What happens: have, say, need · To what, where: need, wits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wits, Tuan), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 need | det |
| 5 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wits | case |
| 7 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | wits = wit | no need of wits | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tuan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | need in a quote | wits | nom need «state 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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