Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 13
“Wait, wait,” cried the Carl.
Who acts: Carl · What happens: wait, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl), 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 | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Carl | det |
| 9 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Carl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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