Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16
“It is very lucky,” said the man in the branch below, “that a sheep cannot climb a tree.”
Who acts: luck, man, sheep · What happens: be, say, not climb · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, man, sheep), 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 lucky | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lucky | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lucky | advmod |
| 5 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 branch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | below | below | ADV | _ | 13 branch | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 climb | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sheep | det |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 climb | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 climb | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 climb | advmod |
| 22 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 climb | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | luck | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man in the branch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not climb in a quote | can | a sheep | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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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