Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
“Cael, my pulse,” said the Carl, “we had better build a house or a hut to pass the night in.”
Who acts: Cael, Carl, my · What happens: say, build, pass, pulse · To what, where: house · 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 (Cael, Carl, my), 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 | _ | 2 Cael | punct |
| 2 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulse | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pulse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cael | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulse | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cael | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Carl | det |
| 10 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 build | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 build | aux |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 had | xcomp |
| 16 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 build | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 hut | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pass | mark |
| 23 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 build | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pass | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 pass | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build in a quote | past | the Carl | a house or a hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | to-infinitive | the Carl not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pulse in a quote | my | nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=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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