Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 45
The man who had tied his sandal said then: “Are you in pain, honest man?”
Who acts: man, you · What happens: tie, say, be · To what, where: man, pain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | aux |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sandal | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 12 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pain | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pain | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pain | case |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 17 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pain | appos |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · perfect · passive | the man | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient sandal=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | pain | 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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