Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 2
He was so confounded with joy also that his words got mixed up with his teeth, and Duv Laca did not know exactly what it was he was trying to say, and he did not seem to know himself.
Who acts: Duv, joy, King · What happens: confound, mix up, not know, be, try, say · To what, where: King, words · 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 (Duv, joy, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:2424): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 confounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 confounded | advmod |
| 4 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confounded | obl |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 confounded | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 mixed | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mixed | aux:pass |
| 12 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 confounded | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 mixed | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 teeth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mixed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 19 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 know | nsubj |
| 20 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Duv | flat |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 confounded | conj |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 25 what | advmod |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 know | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 what | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 trying | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 trying | aux |
| 30 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 say | mark |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trying | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seem | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seem | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seem | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seem | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 seem | advmod |
| 38 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 confounded | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 seem | xcomp |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 know | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confound | past · passive | King | with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mix up | past · passive | King's words | with King's teeth | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with tooth=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Duv | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | joy | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | try | past · progressive | King | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not seem | past · do-support | King | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | know | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | word | King | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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