Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 20
“It is apples that I smell.”
Who acts: heart, sun · What happens: be, smell · To what, where: apples
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, sun), 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 | _ | 4 apples | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 apples | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 apples | cop |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 smell | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 smell | nsubj |
| 7 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 apples | acl:relcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 apples | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 apples | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | heart | apples | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smell in a quote | present | sun | apples | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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