Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 29
“Do you mean,” said Mongan, “that you would exchange this herd of fifty pure white cows having red ears--”
Who acts: you, Mongan, fifty pure white cows · What happens: mean, say, exchange, have · To what, where: herd, red ears · 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 (you, Mongan, fifty pure white cows), 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 mean | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exchange | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 exchange | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 exchange | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 exchange | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 exchange | aux |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 herd | det |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 exchange | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cows | case |
| 18 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 cows | nummod |
| 19 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cows | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cows | amod |
| 21 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herd | nmod |
| 22 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 cows | acl |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ears | amod |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 having | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 exchange | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 exchange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | exchange in a quote | would | you | this herd of fifty pure white cows | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | gerund | fifty pure white cows not said here | red ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
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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