Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19
“When the chance comes take it,” Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.
Who acts: chance, Conaran · What happens: come, take, continue, smile, brow · To what, where: chance, black browed unbenevolent smile · 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 (chance, Conaran), 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chance | det |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | advcl |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 continued | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 10 | Conaran | Conaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smiled | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 smiled | nsubj |
| 15 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 continued | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 smile | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 smile | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 black | punct |
| 19 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 browed | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 beetle | punct |
| 21 | browed | brow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 smile | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 smile | punct |
| 23 | unbenevolent | unbenevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 smile | amod |
| 24 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smiled | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | the chance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | Conaran not said here | chance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Conaran | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | smile | past | Conaran | a black browed unbenevolent smile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic | ||||
| 5 | brow | participle | tree rules |
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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