Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 24
“If it has to be hugged,” he said, “I’ll hug it.
Who acts: much, Fergus · What happens: have, hug, say, 'll · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, Fergus), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 has | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hugged | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hugged | aux:pass |
| 7 | hugged | hug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’ll | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’ll | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’ll | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | hug | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’ll | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hug | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | much | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hug in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | much not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fergus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | 'll in a quote | present | Fergus | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hug in a quote | infinitive | Fergus not said here | much | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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