Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 41
“Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder.
Who acts: you, Fionn, voice · What happens: be, say, rumble, vibrate · To what, where: voice · 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 (you, Fionn, voice), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rumbled | nsubj |
| 13 | rumbled | rumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 voice | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vibrated | cc |
| 15 | vibrated | vibrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rumbled | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 thunder | case |
| 17 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vibrated | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Fionn | a voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 3 | rumble | past | a voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | vibrate | participle | a voice not said here | like thunder | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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