Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19
This Cairide’ listened to the story when it was first told.
Who acts: Cairide · What happens: listen, tell · To what, where: Faery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cairide), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Cairide | det |
| 2 | Cairide | Cairide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 told | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 told | advmod |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 listened | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | this Cairide | to the story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Faery | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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