Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 7
“I could pad as gently as any; I could run as tirelessly.
Who acts: Tuan · What happens: pad, run
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), 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 pad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pad | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pad | aux |
| 4 | pad | pad | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 gently | advmod |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 pad | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 any | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 pad | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pad | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 tirelessly | advmod |
| 14 | tirelessly | tirelessly | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pad in a quote | could | Tuan | as any; gently property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | could | Tuan | tirelessly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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