Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4
“Dear heart,” said Fionn, “this is the champion I am putting against you in the race.”
Who acts: Dear heart, this · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: champion, race · 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 (Dear heart, this), 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 heart | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 champion | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 champion | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 champion | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 champion | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 champion | det |
| 13 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fionn | appos |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 putting | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 putting | aux |
| 16 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 champion | nmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 putting | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 putting | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 champion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the champion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | present · progressive | Dear heart = heart | the race | against you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against you=Destination |
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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