Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 14
The fourth daughter, Iarnach, was not present at that moment, so nothing need be said of her yet.
Who acts: fourth daughter · What happens: not be, need, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Iarnach | punct |
| 5 | Iarnach | Iarnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 present | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 present | advmod |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 said | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | aux:pass |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 present | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the fourth daughter | moment | present property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive · passive | nothing | yet | of Iarnach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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