Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 25
That is a silly riddle,” he burbled.
Who acts: That, Carl · What happens: be, burble · To what, where: silly riddle
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Carl), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 riddle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 riddle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 riddle | det |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 riddle | amod |
| 5 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 riddle | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 riddle | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burbled | nsubj |
| 9 | burbled | burble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 riddle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 riddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a silly riddle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burble in a quote | past | Carl | a silly riddle not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
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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