Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 28
“My faith,” said he, “where are the two tails of my coat?”
Who acts: faith · What happens: say, be · To what, where: two tails · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (faith), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faith | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 where | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 where | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 said | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tails | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tails | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 tails | nummod |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 where | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tails | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | My faith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the two tails | of my coat | tree rules |
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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