Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 19

There is a Tibraide’ outside and a Tibraide’ inside, and who knows but there are some more of them under the bed.

Who acts: Tibraide, more · What happens: be, know · 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 (Tibraide, more), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Tibraide	det
4	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	’	's	PART	_	4 Tibraide	case
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 Tibraide	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Tibraide	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Tibraide	det
9	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tibraide	conj
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 Tibraide	punct
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knows	cc
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 are	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knows	ccomp
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 more	det
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 are	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 more	nmod
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 bed	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bed	det
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	a Tibraide and a Tibraide	there	inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present	some more of Mongan	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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