Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20

Perhaps he would not go in at first.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not go in

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 go	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in	would	boy					perhaps property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location

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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