Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 58
“You cannot remain here,” his step-father continued.
Who acts: You, step father · What happens: not remain, continue · 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 (You, step father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remain | advmod |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remain | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 step | punct |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remain in a quote | can | You | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Fionn's step father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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