Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 50

“It would be almost as easy,” the boy submitted, “if one were to set on the track of the Sacred Hazel and eat the nuts straight from the bush.”

Who acts: Salmon, boy, one · What happens: be, submit, set, eat · To what, where: track, nuts, bush · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Salmon, boy, one), 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	_	7 easy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 easy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 easy	case
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 submitted	nsubj
12	submitted	submit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 set	mark
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 submitted	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 track	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 track	det
22	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Hazel	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Hazel	det
25	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Hazel	compound
26	Hazel	Hazel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 track	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 set	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nuts	det
30	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obj
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	34 bush	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 bush	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bush	det
34	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	Salmon			almost, easy property	tree rules
2	submit	past	the boy				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	set a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	one		the track of the Sacred Hazel		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on track=Destination
4	eat in a quote	present	one not said here	the nuts	the bush		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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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