Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23
“If I save your head from Fionn,” the woman of the Shi’ replied, “then your head will belong to me.”
Who acts: woman, head · What happens: save, reply, belong · To what, where: head, Fionn, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, head), 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 | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 save | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 save | nsubj |
| 4 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 replied | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Fionn | case |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 save | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 save | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ’ | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ’ | det |
| 15 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ’ | compound |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | nmod |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 belong | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 belong | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 belong | advmod |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 belong | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 belong | aux |
| 24 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 replied | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 belong | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the woman of the Shi ’ = woman | your head | Fionn | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent head=Theme from fionn=Source | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman of the Shi ’ | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | future | your head | the woman of the Shi ’ = woman | then | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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