Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 31
“There always escapes one man,” said Finnian thoughtfully.
What happens: escape, say · To what, where: one man · 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: 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 | _ | 4 escapes | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 escapes | expl |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 escapes | advmod |
| 4 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 man | nummod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escapes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 escapes | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 escapes | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Finnian | finnian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | xcomp |
| 11 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 10 Finnian | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape in a quote | present | one man | there | always property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | finnian property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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