Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 5
“Winter is in my heart,” quoth he, “and I am cold already.”
Who acts: Winter, heart, I · What happens: be, quoth · To what, where: heart, pleasure · 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 (Winter, heart, 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 | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 2 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heart | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 quoth | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cold | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cold | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cold | cop |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quoth | parataxis |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 cold | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Winter | my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth | present | my heart | pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | cold 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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