Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11
“If you are dreaming,” said Congn, “I’m dreaming too.
Who acts: you, Congn · What happens: dream, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Congn), 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 dreaming | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 dreaming | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dreaming | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreaming | aux |
| 5 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreaming | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreaming | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Congn | Congn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’m | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’m | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’m | nsubj |
| 13 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ’m | xcomp |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 dreaming | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Congn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Congn | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dream in a quote | gerund | Congn not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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