Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11

“He will throw stones at you.

Who acts: Tuiren · What happens: throw · To what, where: stones

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuiren), 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 throw	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	future	Tuiren	stones				at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at you=Destination

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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