Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 25
“There is no lie in what you say,” said Mongan.
Who acts: lie, you, Mongan · What happens: be, 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 (lie, you, 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 | _ | 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 | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 lie | det |
| 5 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lie | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no lie | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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