Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 20
“By my hand,” he answered, “you are sweeter and lovelier than any being under the sun, but--”
Who acts: Art, you · What happens: answer, be · 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, you), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweeter | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweeter | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sweeter | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sweeter | cop |
| 13 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 answered | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lovelier | cc |
| 15 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sweeter | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 sun | det |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sun | cop |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sweeter | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Art | by my hand | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | gerund | than any sun | 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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