Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 3
“What’s wrong at all?” said Cona’n, as he tumbled to the ground.
Who acts: Cona’n · What happens: be, say, tumble · To what, where: all, ground · 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 (Cona’n), 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 | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 wrong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tumbled | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 tumbled | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tumbled | nsubj |
| 14 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tumbled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | all | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Cona’n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tumble | past | Cona’n = cona'n | the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location |
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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