Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 39
“I didn’t move that piece,” said he sternly.
Who acts: I · What happens: not move, say · To what, where: piece · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 move | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 piece | det |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sternly | nsubj |
| 12 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move in a quote | past · do-support | I | that piece | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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