Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
“Nothing,” cried a messenger, and was sped as he spoke.
Who acts: Nothing, lump · What happens: cry, speed, speak · To what, where: messenger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, lump), 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 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 messenger | det |
| 7 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sped | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sped | aux:pass |
| 11 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sped | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Nothing | a messenger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speed | past · passive | Nothing not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | lump | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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