Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11
During this conversation Conn had been regarding her with the minute freedom which is right only in a king.
Who acts: minute freedom · What happens: regard, be · To what, where: magician
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minute freedom), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 conversation | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 conversation | det |
| 3 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regarding | obl |
| 4 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conversation | appos |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 regarding | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 regarding | aux |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 regarding | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 freedom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 freedom | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freedom | compound |
| 12 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regarding | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 king | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 king | cop |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 king | advmod |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 king | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freedom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 regarding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past · perfect · progressive | magician | during this conversation | with the minute freedom | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the minute freedom | in a king; right 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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