Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11

They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him under bonds not to sing or whistle or cough or sneeze until the morning.

Who acts: women, Fionn · What happens: tell, sleep, put, not sing, whistle, cough · To what, where: Fionn, tree, bonds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, Fionn), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sleep	aux
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 bonds	case
18	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sing	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sing	mark
21	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 put	advcl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 whistle	cc
23	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sing	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 cough	cc
25	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sing	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 sneeze	cc
27	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cough	conj
28	until	until	ADP	_	30 morning	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 morning	det
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sneeze	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	women = woman		Fionn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fionn=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sleep	must	Fionn			a tree that night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
3	put	past	women = woman	Fionn		bonds		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under bond=Destination
4	not sing speech: express	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	whistle	infinitive	women = woman not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cough	infinitive	women = woman not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sneeze	infinitive	women = woman not said here				morning	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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