Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 20
“I,” cried Cona’n triumphantly, “I see a dust.”
Who acts: I · What happens: cry, see · To what, where: Cona’n, dust · 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 (I), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 5 cried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dust | det |
| 13 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | I | Cona’n | triumphantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cona'n=Topic | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | I | a dust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus |
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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