Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 38
“I’d sooner be that than a skinned eel,” said she.
Who acts: Hag · What happens: have, be, say · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hag), 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 | _ | 3 ’d | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’d | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 ’d | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sooner | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 eel | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 eel | det |
| 9 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eel | amod |
| 10 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sooner | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’d | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’d | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Hag | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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