Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 26
“This one is fat,” said Cuillen, and she rolled a bulky Fenian along like a wheel.
Who acts: one, Cuillen · What happens: be, say, roll · To what, where: bulky Fenian · 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, Cuillen), 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 fat | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fat | cop |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Cuillen | Cuillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rolled | nsubj |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Fenian | det |
| 15 | bulky | bulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Fenian | amod |
| 16 | Fenian | Fenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 wheel | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wheel | det |
| 20 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this one | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cuillen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roll | past | Cuillen | a bulky Fenian | like a wheel; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fenian=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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