Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 15
“She cried to us, ‘Let me go to meet my love’.”
Who acts: Fionn, my · What happens: cry, let, go, meet, love · To what, where: us, Fionn, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fionn, my), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 8 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Fionn | us | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | my love | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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