Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 42
“It is the Carl,” said the watcher, “and the dust behind him is Cael of the Iron trying to catch him up.”
Who acts: voice, Carl, dust · What happens: be, say, try, catch up · To what, where: Carl, watcher, Cael · 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 (voice, 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 | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carl | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carl | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 watcher | det |
| 10 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Cael | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Cael | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Cael | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dust | det |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Cael | nsubj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dust | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Cael | cop |
| 19 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 watcher | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Iron | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Iron | det |
| 22 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cael | nmod |
| 23 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 catch | mark |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 trying | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 catch | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 catch | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | voice | the Carl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Carl | the watcher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent watcher=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the dust behind Carl | Cael | of the Iron | tree rules | |||
| 4 | try in a quote | gerund | the Carl not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | catch up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Carl not said here | Carl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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