Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 13
“This is news,” said the king, “and it is good news.”
Who acts: news · What happens: be, say · To what, where: news, king, good news · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 news | det |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | cop |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 news | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 news | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 news | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 news | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 news | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 news | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 news | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 news | amod |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this news | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this news | the king and good news | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | news | good news | 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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