Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 3
“We laugh when we can,” commented the stranger, “and are thankful for the chance.”
Who acts: We, stranger · What happens: laugh, comment, be · 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 (We, stranger), 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 | _ | 9 commented | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 commented | parataxis |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 can | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 9 | commented | comment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commented | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thankful | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thankful | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thankful | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thankful | cop |
| 16 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 commented | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 chance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thankful | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commented | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 commented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present | We | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | comment speech: other | past | the stranger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the stranger not said here | for the chance; thankful property | tree rules |
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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