Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 40
“It is the Carl,” he said, “carrying something on his back, and behind him again there is a dust.”
Who acts: distance, Carl, dust · What happens: be, say, carry · To what, where: Carl, something, back · 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 (distance, Carl, dust), 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 Carl | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Carl | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Carl | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Carl | det |
| 5 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carl | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carl | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 carrying | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 is | cc |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 again | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 behind | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 is | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dust | det |
| 25 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | distance | the Carl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Carl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | gerund | the Carl not said here | something | Carl's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a dust | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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