Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 17
“This is a fine growing year,” said he.
Who acts: This, Chamberlain · What happens: grow, be, say · To what, where: fine growing year · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Chamberlain), 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 year | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 year | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 year | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 year | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 year | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | a fine growing year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Chamberlain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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