Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 26
“You can come in without the dog, or you can stay out with the dog,” said the surly guardian.
Who acts: You, surly guardian · What happens: come in, stay out, say · 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 (You, surly guardian), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 stay | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | aux |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stay | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 guardian | det |
| 22 | surly | surly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 guardian | amod |
| 23 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in in a quote | can | You | without the dog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay out in a quote | can | you | with the dog | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with dog=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the surly guardian | 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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