Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 3
“All that you say is lovely, for you are lovely,” said he, “and you are my delight and the joy of the world.”
Who acts: you, All, he · What happens: say, be, joy · To what, where: delight, world · 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 (you, All, he), 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 lovely | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 lovely | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 say | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 All | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lovely | cop |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 lovely | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 lovely | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lovely | cop |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lovely | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lovely | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 delight | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 delight | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 delight | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 delight | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 delight | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 delight | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 delight | nmod:poss |
| 23 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 joy | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 joy | det |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 delight | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 joy | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 joy | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | All | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | he | my delight and the joy of the world | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | joy in a quote | the world | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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