Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 21
You shall whine and squeal at the moon, and shiver in the cold, and you will never take another girl’s sweetheart again.”
Who acts: You · What happens: whine, squeal, not take · To what, where: shiver, sweetheart
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 whine | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 whine | aux |
| 3 | whine | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 squeal | cc |
| 5 | squeal | squeal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whine | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeal | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shiver | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shiver | cc |
| 11 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whine | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cold | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cold | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shiver | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whine | conj |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 24 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whine | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whine | shall | You | shiver in the cold | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | squeal | infinitive | You not said here | at the moon | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not take | future | you | another girl's sweetheart | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Theme |
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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