Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 24
“I was thinking about my own treasure, my cup of cheeriness, and the pulse of my heart.”
Who acts: king, my · What happens: think, treasure, pulse · To what, where: pulse, heart
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 (king, my), 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 | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 treasure | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 treasure | amod |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cup | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cup | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treasure | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cheeriness | case |
| 13 | cheeriness | cheeriness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cup | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulse | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulse | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pulse | det |
| 17 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulse | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | the king = king | the pulse of my heart | about my own treasure and my cup of cheeriness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about treasure=Topic | |||
| 2 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | pulse in a quote | my heart | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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