Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 10

She weighed all that he said on whatever subject, and when he talked in his sleep she listened to his dream.

Who acts: lament, husband · What happens: weigh, say, talk, listen, sleep, dream · To what, where: all, subject, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lament, husband), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 weighed	nsubj
2	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 weighed	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 weighed	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 subject	case
8	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	9 subject	det
9	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 listened	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 talked	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talked	nsubj
14	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 listened	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sleep	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sleep	nmod:poss
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talked	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listened	nsubj
19	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 weighed	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 dream	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dream	nmod:poss
22	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 listened	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 weighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weigh	past	lament	all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	husband		whatever subject		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	talk	past	husband		husband's sleep		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	past	lament			to husband's dream	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dream=Theme
5	sleep		husband				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent
6	dream		husband				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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