Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4
This one said: “Mind you do not tumble in the well!”
Who acts: one, you · What happens: say, not tumble · To what, where: Mind · 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 (one, you), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 tumble | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mind | punct |
| 6 | Mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tumble | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tumble | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tumble | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tumble | advmod |
| 10 | tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 well | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 13 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tumble | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 tumble | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tumble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | this one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not tumble in a quote | present · do-support | you | Mind | in the well | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in well=Attribute |
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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