Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1
“There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady scornfully.
Who acts: nothing, Flame Lady · What happens: be, marvel, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, Flame Lady), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marvel | mark |
| 6 | marvel | marvel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Laca | case |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Laca | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Laca | nsubj |
| 10 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Laca | compound |
| 11 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 marvel | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lady | det |
| 16 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lady | compound |
| 17 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marvel in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | about Duv Laca | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Flame Lady | scornfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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