Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 14
“I do not know if I see or if I surmise, but something moves,” said Fionn.
Who acts: Fionn, something · What happens: not know, see, surmise, move, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, something), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 surmise | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 surmise | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 surmise | nsubj |
| 12 | surmise | surmise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moves | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 moves | cc |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 moves | nsubj |
| 16 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moves | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | surmise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Fionn | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | move in a quote | present | something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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