Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 10
“The one in front carrying the big book is Tibraide’.
Who acts: one · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: big book, Tibraide
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | _ | 11 Tibraide | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tibraide | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 one | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 book | amod |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Tibraide | cop |
| 11 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tibraide | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tibraide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | gerund | the one in front not said here | the big book | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the one in front | Tibraide | 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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