Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 37
“You are very brave to come to help me,” Fionn murmured, “especially when you are not able to help me at all.”
Who acts: You, Fionn · What happens: be, come, help, murmur, not be · To what, where: Fionn, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fionn), 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 brave | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brave | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 brave | advmod |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brave | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 13 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 murmured | nsubj |
| 14 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brave | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 able | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 able | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 able | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 able | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 able | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 able | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 able | advmod |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brave | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 help | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | Fionn | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | murmur speech: other | past | Fionn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | you | able, especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Fionn | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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