Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28
Lovely is the slender foot that I see in a small bronze shoe,” said the king.
Who acts: Lovely, I · What happens: be, see, say · To what, where: slender foot, small bronze shoe, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lovely, I), 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 | Lovely | Lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 foot | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foot | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 4 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 foot | amod |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 see | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foot | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shoe | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shoe | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shoe | amod |
| 12 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoe | compound |
| 13 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 foot | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 foot | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lovely | the slender foot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | I | the slender foot | a small bronze shoe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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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