Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 38
“Fionn sends you this hound to take care of until he comes for her,” said the messenger.
Who acts: Fionn, messenger · What happens: send, take, come, say · To what, where: you, care · 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 (Fionn, messenger), 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 | _ | 3 sends | punct |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hound | det |
| 6 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hound | acl |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 take | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sends | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 comes | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sends | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 messenger | det |
| 20 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present | Fionn | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | Fionn | for Fergus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the messenger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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