Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12
“It is a small run,” said the Carl, “but it will do.
Who acts: length, small run · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: small run · 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 (length, small run), 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 | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 run | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 run | amod |
| 6 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Carl | det |
| 11 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Carl | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | length | a small run | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a small run | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | length | vn act-114-1 «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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