Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 3
“There is no one can run like Caelte,” one man averred.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, aver · To what, where: one man
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 (one), 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 | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Caelte | case |
| 9 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 man | nummod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | advcl |
| 14 | averred | aver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can · present | no one | like Caelte; run property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | aver | participle | one man not said here | 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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