Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 23
“I never saw anything I would rather have than these cows,” said Mongan.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: not see, have, say · To what, where: anything · 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 (Mongan), 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 | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 cows | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 cows | det |
| 12 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past | Mongan | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | would | Mongan | than this cows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | 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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