Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 36
“I am indeed,” she replied, “and I love you dearly.”
Who acts: hag · What happens: reply, love · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 am | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 13 love | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | hag | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | hag | you | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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