Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11
“I never run less than sixty miles,” Cael replied sullenly.
Who acts: Cael · What happens: not run, reply · To what, where: sixty miles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael), 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 run | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 sixty | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 less | fixed |
| 7 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 miles | nummod |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 11 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 13 | sullenly | sullenly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run in a quote | present | Cael | sixty miles | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mile=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Cael | sullenly property | vn respond-113 «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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