Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 14

“It may be the sun,” replied mac an Da’v, peering curiously at the golden radiance that dozed about them, “but maybe it’s a yellow fog.”

Who acts: sun, sun replied mac, golden radiance · What happens: be, reply, peer, doze · To what, where: sun, yellow fog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, sun replied mac, golden radiance), 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	_	6 sun	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sun	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sun	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sun	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mac	compound
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sun	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sun	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mac	amod
10	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Da’v	det
12	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 peering	punct
14	peering	peer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 mac	acl
15	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	14 peering	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 radiance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 radiance	det
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 radiance	amod
19	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peering	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dozed	nsubj
21	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 radiance	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dozed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fog	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 fog	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 fog	cc
27	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	32 fog	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fog	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fog	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fog	det
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fog	amod
32	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mac	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 fog	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 fog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	may	sun	the sun		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	participle				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peer	gerund	sun replied mac not said here		at the golden radiance; curiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at radiance=Theme
4	doze	past	the golden radiance		about territories = territory	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	sun	a yellow fog	maybe property	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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