Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 13
Fiachna’s breath was taken away by that request, and he took a little time to compose himself, then he said mildly:
Who acts: request, Fiachna · What happens: take away, take, compose, say · To what, where: breath, Fiachna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (request, Fiachna), 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 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fiachna | case |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 request | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 request | det |
| 9 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 compose | mark |
| 18 | compose | compose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 compose | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 said | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 24 | mildly | mildly | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · passive | that request | Fiachna's breath | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Fiachna | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | compose | to-infinitive | Fiachna not said here | Fiachna | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Fiachna | then | mildly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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