Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 37

The crows will tell a secret if no one else does; and under a bush, behind a clump of bracken, what eyes may there not be!

Who acts: crows, one, eyes · What happens: tell, do, not there, be · To what, where: secret, bush · 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 (crows, one, eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crows	det
2	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 does	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 does	nsubj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 bush	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bush	cc
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 bush	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bush	det
16	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 clump	punct
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 clump	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 clump	det
20	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bush	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 bracken	case
22	bracken	bracken	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clump	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 there	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 there	obj
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 there	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 there	aux
27	there	there	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bush	parataxis
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 there	advmod
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 there	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	the crows	a secret	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient
2	do a condition, not said to happen	present	no one		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not there	may	eyes	a bush and a clump of bracken	tree rules
4	be	infinitive	eyes not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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