Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 30
“I would be contented if I could not see them at all,” his companion grumbled.
Who acts: companion · What happens: content, not see, grumble · To what, where: companion, daughters, all · 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 (companion), 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 contented | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 contented | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 contented | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 contented | aux:pass |
| 5 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 grumbled | ccomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 contented | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 contented | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 contented | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grumbled | nsubj |
| 18 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 grumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content in a quote | would · passive | Fionn's companion = companion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | Fionn's companion = companion | daughters = daughter | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | Fionn's companion | vn complain-37.8 «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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