Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 2
“Nevertheless,” the king replied, “it would be courteous of you not to laugh at misfortune.”
Who acts: king, army, you · What happens: reply, be, not laugh · To what, where: misfortune · 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 (king, army, you), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 courteous | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 courteous | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 courteous | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 courteous | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 courteous | cop |
| 13 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 laugh | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 laugh | mark |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 courteous | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 misfortune | case |
| 20 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | nevertheless property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | army | courteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not laugh in a quote | to-infinitive | you | misfortune | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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