Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 30
“And their fifty calves,” said the King of Leinster--
Who acts: fifty calves · What happens: 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 (fifty calves), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 calves | cc |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 calves | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 calves | nummod |
| 5 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calves | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 calves | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Leinster | case |
| 12 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | cows's fifty calves | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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