Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 24

“These,” said the King of Leinster, “are the most beautiful cows in Ireland, and,” he continued thoughtfully, “Duv Laca is the most beautiful woman in Ireland.”

Who acts: These, Mongan, Duv Laca · What happens: say, be, continue · To what, where: beautiful cows, Ireland, beautiful woman · 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 (These, Mongan, Duv Laca), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 These	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 These	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Leinster	case
9	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cows	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 cows	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cows	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cows	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 beautiful	advmod
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cows	amod
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Ireland	case
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 continued	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 continued	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 continued	nsubj
24	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
25	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	24 continued	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
28	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Laca	compound
29	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 woman	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 woman	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 continued	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Ireland	case
36	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 woman	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	These				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the beautiful cows	Ireland		tree rules
3	continue	past	Mongan			thoughtfully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	Duv Laca	the beautiful woman	Ireland		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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