Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 40
“For,” said he, “the thing I lost through my own folly I shall get back through my own craft.”
Who acts: King, thing, my · What happens: say, lose, get back, craft · To what, where: thing, own folly, own craft · 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 (King, thing, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | acl:relcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 folly | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 folly | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 folly | amod |
| 16 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 craft | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 craft | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 craft | amod |
| 24 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | King | the thing not said here | my own folly | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | get back in a quote | shall | the thing | my own craft | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through craft=Destination | ||||
| 4 | craft in a quote | my | nom craft «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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