Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 23
“I was thinking about my own lamb,” said mac an Da’v.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, say, mac · To what, where: Da’v · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 lamb | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lamb | amod |
| 8 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Da’v | det |
| 14 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | I | about my own lamb | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about lamb=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | 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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