Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21
When she was told her sentence, nay, her doom, she made no outcry, nor did she waste any time in sorrow.
Who acts: One · What happens: tell, make, waste, sentence, doom · To what, where: One, outcry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sentence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nay | punct |
| 8 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doom | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 doom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nay | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 outcry | det |
| 16 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waste | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 waste | cc |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 waste | aux |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 waste | nsubj |
| 21 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | parataxis |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waste | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sorrow | case |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | One | no outcry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcry=Product | ||||
| 3 | waste | past · do-support | One | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sentence | One | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | doom | One | nom doom «event 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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