Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 11

Boys must know what another boy can do, and they will match themselves against everything.

Who acts: Boys, boy · What happens: know, do, match · To what, where: Boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys, 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	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 match	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 match	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 match	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 match	aux
13	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 match	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 everything	case
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 match	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	must	Boys			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	can	another boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	match	future	Boys = boy	Boys = boy	against everything	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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