Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 9
“I can see nothing,” said Fionn, and he projected again his grim, gaunt forehead.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: see, say, project · To what, where: nothing, grim gaunt forehead · 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), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 projected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 projected | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 projected | nsubj |
| 13 | projected | project | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 projected | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forehead | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grim | punct |
| 18 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forehead | amod |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 projected | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | Fionn | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | project | past | Fionn | Fionn's grim gaunt forehead | again | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent forehead=Value |
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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