Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
“Then I need not be more careful than usual,” Art replied, and he made his move.
Who acts: Art · What happens: not need, be, reply, make, move · To what, where: move · 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 (Art), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 need | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | advcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 careful | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 careful | advmod |
| 8 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 need | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 careful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 13 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 move | nmod:poss |
| 20 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need in a quote | present | Art | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Art not said here | than usual; careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Art | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Art | Art's move | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Product | ||||
| 5 | move | Art | nom move «act intransitive»: 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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