Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23
“Am I not your mother also?” she replied mockingly, as she took the seat which the chief magician leaped from.
Who acts: mother, seat · What happens: not be, reply, take, magician, leap · To what, where: mother, seat, chief magician · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, seat), 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 | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mother | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mother | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 mother | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | mockingly | mockingly | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seat | det |
| 18 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 magician | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 magician | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 magician | amod |
| 22 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seat | nmod |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 magician | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 leaped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | your mother = mother | your mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | your mother | mockingly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | mother | the seat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | magician | the seat | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | leap | participle | the chief magician not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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