Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 34
“I haven’t had half my share of blackberries either,” the Carl lamented as he started to run backwards for his coat-tails.
Who acts: Cael, Carl, my · What happens: not have, lament, start, run, share · To what, where: share, blackberries · 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 (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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 lamented | ccomp |
| 6 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 8 share | det:predet |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 share | nmod:poss |
| 8 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blackberries | case |
| 10 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 share | nmod |
| 11 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 had | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Carl | det |
| 15 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lamented | nsubj |
| 16 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 started | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lamented | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 started | xcomp |
| 22 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 21 run | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 tails | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tails | nmod:poss |
| 25 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tails | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 coat | punct |
| 27 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 run | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | Cael | my share of blackberries | either property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | |||
| 2 | lament | past | the Carl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | start | past | Carl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | Carl not said here | for Carl's coat tails; backwards property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for tail=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | share in a quote | my | blackberries | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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