Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 2
“Meal!” he bawled, “meal for the love of the stars!”
Who acts: Meal · What happens: bawl, love · To what, where: meal, stars
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 (Meal), 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 Meal | punct |
| 2 | Meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bawled | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Meal | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Meal | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bawled | nsubj |
| 6 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 meal | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 meal | punct |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bawled | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 love | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 love | det |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meal | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stars | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 love | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 meal | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 meal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl speech: other | past | Meal | meal | for the love of the stars | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic | |||
| 2 | love in a quote | the stars | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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