Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 8

Often the gentleman would send a servitor to spy if that deserter of the gods was still before his door, and each time the servant replied that he was still there.

Who acts: gentleman, deserter, servant · What happens: send, spy, be, reply · To what, where: servitor

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, deserter, servant), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	5 send	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servitor	det
7	servitor	servitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 spy	mark
9	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 servitor	acl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 door	mark
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 deserter	det
12	deserter	deserter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 gods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gods	det
15	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 deserter	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 door	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	20 door	advmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 door	nmod:poss
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spy	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 replied	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 replied	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replied	obl:unmarked
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 servant	det
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replied	nsubj
27	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 send	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 there	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 there	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 there	cop
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 there	advmod
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 replied	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	would	the gentleman	a servitor		often property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servitor=Theme
2	spy	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here	a servitor not said here			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	that deserter of the gods		before gentleman's door; still		tree rules
4	reply speech: assert	past	the servant		time		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	servant		still	there property	tree rules

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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