Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 32
And then the king cried out in dismay: “I have beaten Tibraide’s people.”
Who acts: king · What happens: cry out, beat · To what, where: dismay, people · 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 (king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dismay | case |
| 8 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 beaten | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 beaten | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 beaten | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beaten | aux |
| 13 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Tibraide | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beaten | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the king | dismay | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | beat in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | Tibraide's people | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=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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