Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5
“I would not take all the cows in Ulster,” she screamed.
Who acts: cow · What happens: not take, scream · To what, where: cows, Ulster · 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 (cow), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 screamed | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 cows | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cows | det |
| 8 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ulster | case |
| 10 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cows | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 screamed | nsubj |
| 14 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take in a quote | would | cow | all cows | Ulster | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Value in ulster=Location | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | cow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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