Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 24

“Leave that dog outside,” said the servant.

Who acts: servant · What happens: leave, say · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Leave	obj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 Leave	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	infinitive		that dog				outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the servant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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