Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 27
“One could,” Fionn replied, “but it would not be true.”
Who acts: Fionn, yarn · What happens: reply, not 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 (Fionn, yarn), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 could | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 could | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 could | punct |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 true | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 true | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 true | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 true | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 true | cop |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | would | yarn | true property | 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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