Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23
The king of this island, Daire, had not hitherto spoken, but he now did so with astonishment and emphasis.
Who acts: king · What happens: not speak, do · 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 (king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoken | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Daire | punct |
| 7 | Daire | Daire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 island | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 spoken | advmod |
| 11 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 12 spoken | advmod |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 did | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 did | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 astonishment | case |
| 20 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 emphasis | cc |
| 22 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 astonishment | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · perfect | the king of this island | hitherto property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | King | now | with astonishment and emphasis | vn act-114-1 «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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