Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 46

“She is in one of the islands of the sea,” Becuma replied, “that is all I will tell you,” and she looked at him maliciously, joyously, contentedly, for she thought he would never return from that journey, and that Morgan would see to it.

Who acts: Ireland, Becuma, Art, Morgan · What happens: be, reply, tell, look, think, not return · To what, where: all, you, journey · 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 (Ireland, Becuma, Art, Morgan), 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 one	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 replied	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 islands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 islands	det
8	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 islands	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 islands	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
14	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 replied	nsubj
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 all	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 all	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 all	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 tell	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 replied	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 looked	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	obl
32	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	_	29 looked	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 joyously	punct
34	joyously	joyously	ADV	_	29 looked	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 contentedly	punct
36	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	34 joyously	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 thought	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thought	nsubj
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 looked	conj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 return	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 return	aux
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 return	advmod
44	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 thought	ccomp
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 journey	case
46	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 journey	det
47	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 return	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 see	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 see	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 see	mark
51	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 see	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 see	aux
53	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 return	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 see	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Ireland				in one; of the islands of the sea	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	Becuma					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Becuma	all	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	look	past	Ireland				at Art; joyously, maliciously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	Ireland					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not return	would	Art			that journey		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location
7	see	would	Morgan		journey			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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