Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

They thought that one should not climb a tree!

Who acts: women, one · What happens: think, not climb · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 climb	mark
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 climb	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 climb	advmod
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	women = woman						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not climb	should	one	a tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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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