Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 14
“It is not easy to find the daughter of Morgan,” said Art in a melancholy voice.
Who acts: Art · What happens: not be, find, say · To what, where: daughter, melancholy voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art), 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 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Morgan | case |
| 11 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | compound |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the daughter of Morgan | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Art | a melancholy voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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