Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 35
“To the hill-top,” said Fionn, and he stalked on.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say, stalk on · To what, where: hill top · 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 (Fionn), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hill | punct |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 top | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 top | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stalked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stalked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stalked | nsubj |
| 14 | stalked | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stalked | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | the hill top | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to top=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stalk on | past | Fionn | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: 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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