Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 56

“Lady,” he pleaded, “you will surely not withhold information from the Ard-Ri’?”

Who acts: Lady, you · What happens: plead, not withhold · To what, where: information, Ard Ri · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
2	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pleaded	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lady	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lady	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleaded	nsubj
6	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 withhold	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 withhold	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 withhold	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 withhold	aux
11	surely	surely	ADV	_	13 withhold	advmod
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 withhold	advmod
13	withhold	withhold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleaded	conj
14	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 withhold	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 Ri	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Ri	det
17	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Ri	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Ard	punct
19	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 withhold	obl
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	Lady						tree rules
2	not withhold in a quote	future	you	information		the Ard Ri		surely property	tree rules

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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