Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 1
“I think,” said the Flame Lady, “that whoever lost that woman had no reason to be sad.”
Who acts: Flame Lady, whoever, woman · What happens: think, say, lose, have, be · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flame Lady, whoever, woman), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lady | det |
| 8 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lady | compound |
| 9 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 lost | mark |
| 13 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | advcl |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 reason | det |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sad | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sad | cop |
| 22 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reason | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Flame Lady = lady | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Flame Lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | whoever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | woman | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | no reason not said here | sad 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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