Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 16
“Well,” said Duv Laca surprised, “is he not welcome?”
Who acts: Duv, King · What happens: say, surprise, not be · 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 (Duv, King), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 surprised | nsubj |
| 7 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Duv | flat |
| 8 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 welcome | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 welcome | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 welcome | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 welcome | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 welcome | advmod |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 welcome | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | surprise | past | Duv | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | King | welcome property | 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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