Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27
“He cannot see us now,” Conaran replied, “but he will see us in a minute.”
Who acts: Iaran, Conaran · What happens: not see, reply, see · To what, where: us · 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 (Iaran, 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 10 | Conaran | Conaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 minute | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 minute | det |
| 21 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | can | Iaran | us | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Conaran | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | Iaran | us | minute | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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