Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16
“During a year,” Conn replied, “there has been neither corn nor milk in Ireland.
Who acts: Conn · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: corn, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 7 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 corn | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 been | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 been | expl |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 been | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 corn | cop |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 corn | det |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 milk | cc |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Conn | year | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | neither corn nor milk | Ireland | 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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