Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 35
“One must not be frightened of anything,” Fionn stated.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: not frighten, state · To what, where: One · 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), 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 | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stated | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stated | nsubj |
| 12 | stated | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten in a quote | must · passive | One | of anything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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