Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 35
“Come into the house and give your message, but leave the dog outside, for I don’t like dogs.”
Who acts: you, Fionn · What happens: come, give, leave, not do · To what, where: house, message, dog
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, Fionn), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 message | nmod:poss |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 12 leave | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | conj |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 dogs | case |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your message | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | the dog | outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | present | Fionn | like dogs | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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