Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 2
“‘To-morrow,’ I said, ‘I will go out among ye, and I will die,’ and at that the wolves howled joyfully, hungrily, impatiently.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, go out, die, howl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 3 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 To | punct |
| 5 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 ye | case |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 die | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 howled | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 wolves | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 at | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wolves | det |
| 29 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 howled | obl |
| 30 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 31 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 30 howled | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hungrily | punct |
| 33 | hungrily | hungrily | ADV | _ | 30 howled | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 impatiently | punct |
| 35 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 33 hungrily | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | future | I | among ye; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | future | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | howl in a quote | past | I not said here | at the wolves; hungrily, joyfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at wolf=Stimulus |
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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