Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 50

He continued: “Aillen mac Midna will be off his guard when he stops playing and begins to blow his fire; he will think everybody is asleep; then you can deliver the attack you were speaking of, and all good luck go with it.”

Who acts: Fiacuil, mac Midna, everybody, you, good luck · What happens: continue, be, stop, play, begin, blow · To what, where: fire, attack · 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, mac Midna, everybody, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 guard	punct
5	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mac	compound
6	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Midna	compound
7	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 guard	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 guard	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 guard	cop
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 guard	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 guard	nmod:poss
12	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	advcl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 stops	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stops	nsubj
15	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guard	advcl
16	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stops	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begins	cc
18	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stops	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 blow	mark
20	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begins	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fire	nmod:poss
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blow	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 think	aux
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	parataxis
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 asleep	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 asleep	cop
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 think	ccomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 deliver	punct
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 deliver	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 deliver	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 deliver	aux
34	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 attack	det
36	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 deliver	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 speaking	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 speaking	aux
39	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 attack	acl:relcl
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 speaking	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 go	cc
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 luck	det
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 luck	amod
45	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	nsubj
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	parataxis
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 go	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Fiacuil				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	future	mac Midna			off Fiacuil's guard	tree rules
3	stop in a quote	present	Fiacuil				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	play in a quote	gerund	Fiacuil not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin in a quote	present	Fiacuil not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	blow in a quote	to-infinitive	Fiacuil not said here	Fiacuil's fire			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
7	think speech: other in a quote	future	Fiacuil				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	everybody			asleep property	tree rules
9	deliver in a quote	can	you	the attack	then		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Patient
10	speak speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	you	the attack not said here			tree rules
11	go in a quote	infinitive	all good luck			with attack	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
12	fire in a quote		Fiacuil				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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