Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 41
Do you take her or refuse her?”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, refuse · To what, where: master
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 refuse | cc |
| 6 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 refuse | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | you | master | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | refuse | infinitive | you not said here | master | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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