Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 5
“We have been expecting you,” said Crede’, “but alas, poor soul, it is a hard, and a long, bad way that you must go; for there is sea and land, danger and difficulty between you and the daughter of Morgan.”
Who acts: We, Crede, alas, long bad way, sea · What happens: expect, say, be, go · To what, where: you · 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 (We, Crede, alas, long bad way), 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 expecting | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 expecting | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 expecting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 expecting | aux |
| 5 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 expecting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Crede | Crede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Crede | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hard | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hard | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 alas | cc |
| 15 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hard | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 soul | punct |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soul | amod |
| 18 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alas | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 alas | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hard | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hard | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hard | det |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 way | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 way | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hard | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 go | nsubj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 way | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 is | case |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 is | expl |
| 38 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 is | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 land | cc |
| 41 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sea | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 danger | punct |
| 43 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sea | appos |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 difficulty | cc |
| 45 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 danger | conj |
| 46 | between | between | ADP | _ | 47 you | case |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 difficulty | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 daughter | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 daughter | det |
| 50 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 you | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Morgan | case |
| 52 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 daughter | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | We | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Crede | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | alas and poor soul | a long bad way obl; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | a long bad way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | does in a quote | present | sea and land | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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