Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25
Ale was placed beside the story-teller, and he told this tale to the abbot.
Who acts: Vellum · What happens: place, tell · To what, where: Ale, story teller, tale, abbot · 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 (Vellum), 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 | Ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 teller | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teller | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teller | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 8 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 abbot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 abbot | det |
| 17 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Ale | the story teller | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside teller=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Vellum | this tale | the abbot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to abbot=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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