Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 32
“There is formulae, and the calling up of spirits, and lengthy complicated preparations in our art.”
What happens: call, be · To what, where: calling up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 up | cop |
| 4 | formulae | formulae | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 is | dep |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 up | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 up | det |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 up | amod |
| 9 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 spirits | case |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 up | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 preparations | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 preparations | cc |
| 14 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 preparations | amod |
| 15 | complicated | complicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 preparations | amod |
| 16 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 up | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 art | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 art | nmod:poss |
| 19 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preparations | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 preparations | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | gerund | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the calling up | of spirits | 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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