Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2
“I’Il build nothing,” Cael replied, looking on the Carl with great disfavour.
Who acts: Cael · What happens: build, reply, look · To what, where: nothing · 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), 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 build | punct |
| 2 | I’Il | i'il | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | compound |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 build | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 7 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Carl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Carl | det |
| 13 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 disfavour | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 disfavour | amod |
| 16 | disfavour | disfavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | present | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Cael | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Cael not said here | with great disfavour; on the Carl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on carl=Theme |
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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