Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 33
“If there is such a boy I will find him,” cried the Hundred Fighter.
Who acts: boy, I · What happens: be, find, cry · To what, where: boy, Hundred · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 boy | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 boy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hundred | det |
| 16 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cried | obl |
| 17 | Fighter | Fighter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hundred | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | such boy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | I | boy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Hundred Fighter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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