Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 47
After a while he continued: “There is only one part of your story that I do not like.”
Who acts: abbot, one part · What happens: continue, be, not like · To what, where: story · 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 (abbot, one part), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | ccomp |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 part | nummod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 like | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 story | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | abbot | while | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | one part of your story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | the abbot = abbot | your story | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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