Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 2
“I was so alone that my own shadow frightened me.
Who acts: Tuan, own shadow, my · What happens: be, frighten, shadow · To what, where: Tuan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuan, own shadow, my), 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 alone | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 alone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alone | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 alone | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 frightened | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shadow | amod |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frightened | nsubj |
| 10 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alone | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 frightened | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Tuan | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten in a quote | past | my own shadow | Tuan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | shadow in a quote | my | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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