Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 27
And the man on a branch yet above him groaned out “Amen!”
Who acts: man · What happens: groan out
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 groaned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 branch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 branch | det |
| 6 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 groaned | advmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 yet | obl |
| 10 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 groaned | compound:prt |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Amen | punct |
| 13 | Amen | amen | INTJ | _ | 10 groaned | discourse |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaned | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan out | past | the man on a branch | yet | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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