Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 41
“And yet,” his master continued, “I went away so that you might eat the fish if you felt you had to.”
Who acts: master, Fionn, you · What happens: continue, go away, eat, feel, have · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Fionn, you), 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 | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yet | cc |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 continued | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 eat | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 felt | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 felt | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 had | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Fionn's master | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go away in a quote | past | Fionn | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | might | you | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feel a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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