The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 108
‘It’s in Tir-na-n-Oge I am,’ says he.
What happens: say · To what, where: youngest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 ’s | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Tir | case |
| 5 | Tir | Tir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tir | punct |
| 7 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 n | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 na | punct |
| 9 | n | n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tir | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oge | punct |
| 11 | Oge | Oge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tir | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 am | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | youngest = young | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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