Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 9
Fiachna knew then that the stranger could not be hurt.
Who acts: Fiachna · What happens: know, not hurt · To what, where: stranger
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 (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 | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 knew | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hurt | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stranger | det |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hurt | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hurt | aux:pass |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Fiachna | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | could · passive | the stranger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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