Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 10
“The noise must announce the visit of a king,” Duv Laca continued.
Who acts: noise, Duv · What happens: announce, continue, visit · To what, where: visit, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Duv), 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 announce | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announce | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 announce | aux |
| 5 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 visit | det |
| 7 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announce | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 announce | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 announce | punct |
| 13 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 continued | nsubj |
| 14 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duv | flat |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other in a quote | must | the noise | the visit of a king | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Duv | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit in a quote | a king | nom visit «act transitive»: of=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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