Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 12
So we urged our lady to let us go out to meet you, but to remain herself in the Dun.”
Who acts: we, us · What happens: urge, let, go out, meet, remain · To what, where: lady, us, you, Fionn, Dun
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, us), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 urged | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 urged | nsubj |
| 3 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 urged | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 urged | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 remain | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 remain | mark |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 urged | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 remain | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Dun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dun | det |
| 21 | Dun | Dun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 remain | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 urged | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | we | our lady | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | infinitive | us not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | us not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | remain | to-infinitive | we not said here | Fionn | the Dun | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Attribute |
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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