Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 27
“There is something wrong with the King of Leinster,” Duv Laca whispered.
Who acts: something, Duv · What happens: be, whisper · 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 (something, 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 | _ | 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 | 15 whispered | ccomp |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Leinster | case |
| 10 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 whispered | nsubj |
| 14 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duv | flat |
| 15 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Duv | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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