Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 25
“Here is another one,” cried Caevo’g as she bundled a trussed champion along.
Who acts: one, Caevo’g · What happens: be, cry, bundle, truss · To what, where: one, Caevo’g, trussed champion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Caevo’g), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 one | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Caevo’g | Caevo'g | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bundled | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bundled | nsubj |
| 12 | bundled | bundle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 champion | det |
| 14 | trussed | truss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 champion | amod |
| 15 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bundled | obj |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 bundled | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | another one | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | another one | Caevo’g | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caevo'g=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bundle | past | Caevo’g = caevo'g | a trussed champion | along property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Patient | |||
| 4 | truss | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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