Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 38
“I can help,” Fiacuil replied, “but I must be paid.”
Who acts: Fiacuil · What happens: help, reply, pay · To what, where: Fiacuil · 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 (Fiacuil), 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 | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 7 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 paid | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 paid | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 paid | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 paid | aux:pass |
| 15 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | Fiacuil | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Fiacuil | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | must · passive | Fiacuil | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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