Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 26
“One could not call them handsome,” said Cona’n.
Who acts: One, Cona’n · What happens: not call, say · To what, where: daughters · 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 (One, Cona’n), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 call | advmod |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 call | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call in a quote | could | One | daughters = daughter | handsome property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cona’n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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