Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 4
“The creatures of the forest scented me and knew I was alone.
Who acts: creatures, Tuan · What happens: scent, know, be · To what, where: Tuan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (creatures, Tuan), 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 | _ | 7 scented | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creatures | det |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scented | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creatures | nmod |
| 7 | scented | scent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 scented | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scented | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 alone | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 alone | cop |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent in a quote | past | the creatures of the forest | Tuan | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | past | the creatures of the forest not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Tuan | alone property | tree rules |
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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